Hi, On Di, 24 Apr 2012, Ben Finney wrote: > To say it more plainly: Modifying previous changelog entries, while not > prohibited, does break an implicit user expectation. I think that > expectation is reasonable to an extent, and breaking it is costly to the > same extent.
But there are good reasons to do it at some point, like a new upstream actually fixed some bugs, and it was realized only afterwards. So I close the bug per email with a version header indicating the version where it is fixed, and later I change the old changelog entry * new upstream release (Closes: ....) and add a few more bugs there. I consider this reasonable, but in general, I agree it is better to refrain from too wild rewritting of changelog entries. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DUNCRAGGON (n.) The name of Charles Bronson's retirement cottage. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120424054932.gi23...@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at