martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.05.17.2210 > -0500]: >> mdadm is a *critical* part of a system that uses linux software >> raid. Anything that helps users understand all the important >> changes an update will imply is always uselful. > > Of course, but if there weren't any important changes, doesn't it > suffice that a bug is just fixed? As in: previously mdadm did that > wrongly, and that's fixed. Why should a user care how it was fixed?
You don't even tell him *what* is fixed. Do you know by heart which bugs you reported to package "foo", and if you get a notification that bug #219876 was finally closed, you still know whether this was an important issue or just a patch for a typo in the man page? > I would expect a developer to know to turn to the upstream changelog > for such information. Apart, the Debian changelog would be > hopelessly long if I had to specify "what *exactly* caused a bug to > be closed." Since teTeX 3.0 was released really a long time after the 2.0.2, we also had this problem. In this case, I closed the bugs with this remark: ,---- | * Lots of bugs are closed by this upload - all bugs listed below have | already been tagged fixed-upstream, and there should be an explanation | in the bug logs at http://bugs.debian.org/<bugnumber>. In some cases | the explanation is only a link to the LaTeX Project bug database, or | it is in the comments of the mail sent to the control server, but it's | always there. | | - For tetex-base: (closes: #221262, #261529, #272560, #119531, | #267768, #195711, #181310, #206315, #230931, #258976, #145339, | #190873, #214415, #255137, #181310, #219573, #229598, #286722) | | - For tetex-extra: (closes: #273246, #218178, #195109, #215925, | #251143, #202472, #259696, #261736, #271463, #273247) | | - For tetex-doc: (closes: #160692, #223569, #153985) `---- > Yes, but see above. A bug that existed previously which is now fixed > is in and of itself appropriate information: the problem now does > not exist anymore. Which problem? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
