On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 11:42:44PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 08:36:20 +1000, Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> If it caused a Debian bug to be closed, that is a significant > >> change in status for the Debian package (it may not be for the > >> upstream software being packaged, but it is for my package). > > > What if the bug was reported after the new Debian package was > > uploaded? Why does it suddenly stop being a significant change? > > Good point. Shall we mandate that all bug closures be > adequately documented in the ChangeLog? I would be quite happy with > that.
Ai. Er, I hope you're not planning to encourage people to upload new versions of packages just to add bug numbers to the changelog? Because that would be most inefficient and wrong. My answer to Herbert would be "it would be nice, but unfortunately time travel is not yet among our capabilities". -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
