"Sandro Tosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Modified: trunk/debian/changelog > > URL: > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/reportbug/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=538&op=diff > > ============================================================================== > > --- trunk/debian/changelog (original) > > +++ trunk/debian/changelog Sun Jun 15 07:48:00 2008
[...] > Those changes are *wrong*! you should not change previous entries in > debian/changelog as stated in Debian Policy: > > 4.4. Debian changelog: `debian/changelog' > ----------------------------------------- > > Changes in the Debian version of the package should be briefly > explained in the Debian changelog file `debian/changelog'.[1] > (...) > [1] Mistakes in changelogs are usually best rectified by making a new > changelog entry rather than "rewriting history" by editing old > changelog entries. The changes in that changeset are trailing-whitespace fixes. They can't be fixed by making a new changelog entry. So, this appears to be an instance where a mistake is not fixable this way, as allowed by the wording "usually". It's also rather dubious to say that fixing trailing whitespace is "rewriting history" in the changelog. > Please revert this changes. How would you propose we address trailing whitespace? If you'd prefer they not be fixed, can you say why? I automatically remove trailing whitespace in my editor, so fixing it once means that we avoid accidental noise in more substantial changesets. -- \ "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is | `\ required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long | _o__) run." -- Henry David Thoreau | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
