Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-18 Thread Ben Finney
Ross Vandegrift writes: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:23:57AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > As someone who went looking for it recently when you didn't know the > > recommendation: Where exactly would you expect to find this > > information, which particular section of Policy

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-18 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hi Ben - thanks fo the thorough explanation, much appreciated! On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:23:57AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > So now that we agree it's not too clear, and may be difficult to find, I > would welcome a bug report against Policy for clarifying this issue. > > As someone who went

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-16 Thread Ben Finney
Ross Vandegrift writes: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Ross Vandegrift writes: > > > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes > > > I made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not. > >

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-16 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Ross Vandegrift writes: > > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes > > I made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not. > > Thanks for explaining your perspective. > > That

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-15 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Ross Vandegrift writes: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > > Rather, I have a counter-question for you: why are you keeping > > > entries for unreleased uploads in d/changelog? I

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-15 Thread Ben Finney
Ross Vandegrift writes: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Rather, I have a counter-question for you: why are you keeping > > entries for unreleased uploads in d/changelog? I find it rather > > confusing, mostly useless and with no real

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-15 Thread Ross Gammon
On 10/15/2017 05:36 AM, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes I > made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not. But if I > think of the changelog as telling others about changes in a release, > then it makes sense to squash

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > Thanks for the hint. dpkg-genchanges(1) says -c requires a version. Is > ^ > I'll assume this is a typo and you meant -v whoops yes! > > there a

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 02:14:30PM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:53:25PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > It's not BTS, it's dpkg-genchanges. Pass a proper -v to the command you > > use to build the package. > > Thanks for the hint. dpkg-genchanges(1) says -c

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:53:25PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > It's not BTS, it's dpkg-genchanges. Pass a proper -v to the command you > use to build the package. Thanks for the hint. dpkg-genchanges(1) says -c requires a version. Is there a downside to always starting from the first

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:53:25PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:33:24AM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > My changelog [1] documents versions that weren't released. I like > > including that info (it's been useful for me). But the BTS doesn't

Re: BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:33:24AM -0700, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > Hi all, > > My changelog [1] documents versions that weren't released. I like > including that info (it's been useful for me). But the BTS doesn't pick > up on Closes from those - even though later versions have been uploaded.

BTS and unreleased changelog entries

2017-10-14 Thread Ross Vandegrift
Hi all, My changelog [1] documents versions that weren't released. I like including that info (it's been useful for me). But the BTS doesn't pick up on Closes from those - even though later versions have been uploaded. Is there a way to make the BTS notice these entries - or do I need to