On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
[snip]
> BTW: After "the version number has to be incremented too (this is, the
> source package has to be changed and uploaded again) to make sure
> dpkg/dselect recognizes the changed package." I would add:
>
> "You may want to use a point version number x.1 or x.5 and make it to
> disappear from the changelog as if it were never existed, as long as it is
> not released for stable".
I think removing entries from the changelog is usually a bad thing, even
for dot releases. Sometimes, the changelog is very useful to get some
"background" info about the version one has installed.
Chris
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