On 18/06/08 at 21:22 +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > I didn't mean that there should be one wiki page per package. Only that > > there should be one wiki page (or one section on the same wiki page) for > > each class of change. In the case of libext-dev, there was probably at > > least 20 packages affected by that change, where the exact same patch > > (add libext-dev to build-deps) was needed. > > For big transitions or things like this, IMHO I think it's better to do a MBF > in > the BTS if that's going to affect Debian as well.
The problem is that sometimes, Ubuntu transitions earlier (or does transitions that Debian doesn't even consider -- think of /var/run). In that case, a MBF in Debian won't be useful, because the Debian maintainers might simply ignore the bugs. > And when it's specific to one > package, it would be overkilling to put it in the wiki. The changelog should > explain it. > > So I agree with you in that Ubuntu changes should be better documented, but I > don't like the wiki idea. I agree that a wiki page should only be used for big transitions, not for every small change. I now realize it wasn't clear earlier, sorry. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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