Simon McVittie writes ("Re: changelog practice, unfinalised vs UNRELEASED vs ~version"): > On Mon, 13 Feb 2017 at 09:42:32 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > I don't see how this complaint is any different from the need to merge, > > for example, changes to API documentation and test cases that accompany > > a functional change. > > It's the difference between "sometimes conflicts" and "always conflicts".
This is a very real problem for debian/changelog, but mergechangelogs helps a lot. In any case as I say I'm not trying to mandate the workflow where the changelog is updated as-we-go. Ian.