Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Bill Allombert 2006-03-28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please always keep the full Debian changelog information in the package. Of course, you can move very old changelog entry to changelog.old or changelog.1 if they cause problems, but ship them in the deb. Please don't even do that, the changelog

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Nico Golde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes for sure, but useless zipped information is useless anyway. And you know it's useless how? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-27 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:18, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, what would be the appropriate way to handle large and old debian changelog files. Rather arbitrarily, just feels more or less safe: cut everything from before oldstable release. Based on the assumption that oldstable - stable updates

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-27 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: Rather arbitrarily, just feels more or less safe: cut everything from before oldstable release. Based on the assumption that oldstable - stable updates occur more or less over the whole stable+1 development circle. So

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-27 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Sunday 26 March 2006 20:18, Nico Golde wrote: Hi, what would be the appropriate way to handle large and old debian changelog files. Rather arbitrarily, just feels more or less safe: cut everything from before

When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, what would be the appropriate way to handle large and old debian changelog files. I mean there are package with very active upstream and years old changelog which grew and grew over the years. Is there a way to handle these changelog entries which bloat the package and contain only

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-26 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10605 March 1977, Nico Golde wrote: what would be the appropriate way to handle large and old debian changelog files. Keep. Is there a way to handle these changelog entries which bloat the package and contain only information which are too old to be useful or is it ok if for example

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hi, * Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-26 20:32]: On 10605 March 1977, Nico Golde wrote: [...] Is there a way to handle these changelog entries which bloat the package and contain only information which are too old to be useful or is it ok if for example a changelog file would

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-26 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Nico Golde wrote: I thought about changelogs like: 2001-04-06 mitch 20:18:29Michael Natterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not a Debian changelog, and your original question talked about those. Many upstreams split their own changelogs occasionally. If you like, suggest to yours

Re: When to drop/split/summ changelog files

2006-03-26 Thread Nico Golde
Hallo Antti, * Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-03-26 20:52]: Nico Golde wrote: I thought about changelogs like: 2001-04-06 mitch 20:18:29Michael Natterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is not a Debian changelog, and your original question talked about those. Urgs