On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 08:01:38PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Scott James Remnant wrote: > > Is there any particular reason to keep the "unstable; urgency=low" > > there? It's duplication of information in the changelog, and nearly > > every developer will probably forget to change the information in > > NEWS.Debian when they change the urgency or distribution in changelog. > > It may be that apt-listchanges could use the info in the future to sort > news items. It doesn't have to match the value in the changelog.
When merging Joe Drew's patch, I started to add support for sorting the news items by urgency. That much, at least, would be useful. The distribution is pretty unimportant in the NEWS context, though. > One nice thing about using standard changelog format is that if someone > wants to they could add another format, specialised for news > information, and another parser in /usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/. Of > course apt-listchanges does its own parsing, so anyone who does that > would probably be well served by redesigning the parser interface to > something that apt-listchanges can use. Anyway, it's nice to keep that > option open. I filed a wishlist bug about this quite a long time ago (#95579), but got no response. -- - mdz
