Le Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 12:22:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : > Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > > > are there concrete problems caused by modifying previous changelog > > entries ? > > Doing that breaks the entirely reasonable expectation: that a changelog > only ever accumulates entries for the latest release, and nothing in > earlier releases has changed since the last time the recipient read > them.
Hi Ben, What is that expectation for ? I find it dogmatic written like this. If it breaks software, especially in Debian's infrastructure, that would be a key reason for not changing any byte. Otherwise, while there is probably better things to do in life than spellchecking a changelog, I admit that once I went through the first entry, I sometimes correct the ones below. I also remove trailing spaces that distract my eyes when colored in purple by my editor, and for the packages in Git, I sometimes added the first seven numbers of the commit hash to past entries. I also have added missing hashes so that when browsing the changelog on packages.d.o, one can have a nice hyperlink to bug reports, etc. I am not advocating that other people should do this, but I think that, especially on debian-mentors, strong statements about what everybody must not do should come with explanations about the reason, if possible argumented with concrete examples of the problems caused. Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
