"Chris Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I read that as "Ben doesn't use dch" not "Ben doesn't think trailing > whitespaces need to be removed when using dch."
Yes, that's right. > I don't use dch (much) either; I just pull up Emacs and use > debian-changelog-mode 99.7% of the time. Same here. My existing editor is being used to edit just about every other file in the project, and it handles Debian's changelog formats very well. So, I use its feature of stripping trailing whitespace from the file. Special-casing that feature to preserve the trailing whitespace in existing changelog entries seems pointless. > 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. Okay. My proposal, then: At some future point, I'll make another commit to Subversion trunk that removes all trailing whitespace from all changelog entries, and does nothing else (to minimise changeset noise). -- \ "Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave | `\ trade was to the 16th." —David Mertz | _o__) | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
