On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:31:18PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think people that are NMUing packages rarely care about this. > > When NMU'ing a package, I'd really appreciate to know which changes have > which purpose and which "specificity". In particular when trying to > incorporate a fix provided by upstream - why the hell doesn't it apply > cleanly? Did the Debian maintainer already try to address the problem > differently,
We have changelogs for that. If a maintainer doesn't fill out changelogs adequately, what are the chances that they're going to document their patches any better? - Matt
