Michael Meskes writes ("Re: 96 New Debian i386 Packages"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > Can we please have a statement on what we should do ? > > > > I think we should post the release announcements to debian-changes as > > well has having the summary postings. > > > > If people want just the summaries we should provide a separate list. > > I second all of that.
I propose to add the text below to the policy manual. Ian. <sect>Upload handling - announcements <p> When a package is uploaded an announcement should be posted to <tt/debian-changes/. The announcement should give the (source) package name and version number, and a very short summary of the changes, in the <prgn/Subject/ field, and should contain the PGP-signed <tt/.changes/ file. Some additional explanatory text may be added before the start of the <tt/.changes/ file. <p> If a package is released with <tt/Distribution: experimental/ the announcement should be posted to <tt/debian-devel/ instead.