Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 16 Apr 2006, Christian Marillat uttered the following: > >> Here is the relevant policy : >> >> ,---- | Changes in the Debian version of the package should be >> briefly explained in the Debian changelog file >> `debian/changelog'.[1] This includes modifications made in the >> Debian package compared to the upstream one as well as other >> changes and updates to the package. [2] > > So changes made in packaging are relevant, as well as "other" > changes -- which caninclude significant changes upstream. The bottom > line is not one of NIH -- the changelog should contain enough > information for the target audience to decide whether or not to > install the upgrade.
A copy and paste from the NEW file is certainly useless. The Debian changelog : ,---- | * New upstream version: | Bugs fixed: | - Expander disclosure button is too small | - gtk_image_clear doesn't cause redraw | - typo in configure.in yields suspicious warning | - gtk_icon_view_set_cursor causes Segmentation fault | - garbage output of --help in non UTF-8 locale | - GtkNotebook does not destroy its children on destroy() | - TreeView DnD between-row highlight colo | - Gtk-Criticals occur when scrolling a text_view that is not realized | - Hidden menubar still activates submenus with kbd | - GtkTreeItem broken | - Clean up button press handling (use one-grab-op-at-a-time pattern) | - broken scrolling when selecting | - GTK+ File-chooser dialog crashes | - Nautilus crashes when dragging icons to another screen | - mixed line separators confuse gtk_text_iter_ends_line | - Textview child is covered by window border | - gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type(): What image types are allowed? | - Missing progress bar label | - Fix a problem which caused grab-notify signal to be missed in some cases `---- And here the NEW entries for this release : ,---- | 325699 Expander disclosure button is too small [Brad Taylor] | 334657 gtk_image_clear doesn't cause redraw | 334774 typo in configure.in yields suspicious | warning [Peter Breitenlohner] | 335001 gtk_icon_view_set_cursor causes | Segmentation fault [Emmanuel Rodriguez] | 335129 garbage output of --help in non UTF-8 locale [Christian Persch] | 319032 GtkNotebook does not destroy its children | on destroy() [Yevgen Muntyan] | 334906 TreeView DnD between-row highlight color [Ian McDonald] | 335717 Gtk-Criticals occur when scrolling a text_view | that is not realized [Nicolas Setton] | 336200 Hidden menubar still activates submenus with kbd | [Bastian Nocera] | 336254 GtkTreeItem broken [Sven Herzberg] | 74620 Clean up button press handling (use | one-grab-op-at-a-time pattern) [Li Yuan] | 323862 broken scrolling when selecting [Benjamin Berg] | 330617 GTK+ File-chooser dialog crashes | 325751 Nautilus crashes when dragging icons to | another screen [Hylke van der Schaaf] | 337022 mixed line separators confuse | gtk_text_iter_ends_line [Paolo Borelli] | 336796 Textview child is covered by window border [Yevgen Muntyan] | 335536 gdk_pixbuf_loader_new_with_type(): | What image types are allowed? [Murray Cumming] | 336645 Missing progress bar label [Stanislav Brabec] | Fix a problem which caused grab-notify | signal to be missed in some cases [Matthias Clasen] `---- Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
