On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 04:31:22PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:13:23PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Would this work just as well? > > [example without distribution and urgency] > > It would work just as well. The changelog format was used unmodified for > purposes of simplicity. Tools already know how to parse it, and its format > is already reasonably specified in the documentation.
To clarify, I meant that such a format would meet the need of NEWS.Debian. However, the existing tools would not understand it. I do not see the extra unused information as a problem, and it lets us use existing tools for creating and editing NEWS.Debian (debchange, dpkg-dev-el, etc.) -- - mdz
