On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 6:48 AM, Sandro Tosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 13:42, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The best approach I've seen to that is to fix the whitespace in >> separate changesets that *only* fix whitespace, keeping it out of >> other changesets. >> >>> Do you want me to file it or will you do? >> >> I don't personally have the need for that feature, so feel free to >> make the request. > > what??? if you don't need such feature, why are you removing them form > changelog???
I read that as "Ben doesn't use dch" not "Ben doesn't think trailing whitespaces need to be removed when using dch." I don't use dch (much) either; I just pull up Emacs and use debian-changelog-mode 99.7% of the time. I even remember editing debian/changelog without any fancy tools or elisp modes (although I think debian-changelog-mode was around by the time I started on reportbug)... you whippersnappers have it good! While the spaces probably compress out in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't seem all that harmful for them to disappear from the old entries to maintain consistent formatting in the changelog; after all, once upon a time it got converted from Latin1 to UTF-8, and that was arguably a more far-reaching change to "old" entries. And at this point reverting the change would be just silly. Chris _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
