On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 04:34:58PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > If I report "segmentation fault in ls", I--as a user of ls, not a > > developer--couldn't care less about why it was segfaulting or how the > > bug was fixed; I only care that it's been fixed. If a developer wants > > to spend their limited time researching how the bug was fixed and > > summarizing it in a changelog, great, but it's certainly not something I'd > > expect everyone to do. > > It's not about summarizing how the bug was fixed. It's about summarizing the > bug *itself* in the changelog.
I certainly prefer it if the changelog tells how the bug was fixed. This documents the difference between: * New upstream release - Removed the entire subsystem which contained this bug (Closes: #xxx) * New upstream release - Made the "foo" option create its file with sane permissions (Closes: #xxx) -- - mdz
