On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 10:38:23PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > The most important change - diversion of dh_strip - was lost from > debian/changelog somehow ... My fault. > > Possible reason is that we currently have 3 different changelogs: > ChangeLog, debian/changelog and CVS commit logs. Do we really need all > three ?..
In packages like this, I think it's wise to keep packaging-related changes in debian/changelog, as well as noting changes that cause bugs to be closed. Toplevel ChangeLog should have everything else. dpkg-cross should probably drop the pretense of being a Debian-native package. You'll note that my CVS checkin logs are identical to the ChangeLog entries -- I use a script to create a changelog entry, edit the entry, and then another script to check in the files listed. This has the added benefit of making it possible to (easily) selectively check in a large number of files spread around the tree. http://www.schleef.org/~ds/pcl (prepare change log) http://www.schleef.org/~ds/cicl (check in change log) dave...
