On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:22:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:43:16AM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > In this case, it is important to note what actually changed in the > > package. Personally, I dislike the "maintainer upload, closes:" > > convention, and prefer to re-summarize the changes so that it is clear > > which bugs are being acknowledged. Remember that, when you use Closes:, > > the submitter of the bug only gets a copy of your most recent changelog > > entry, so they won't see what the NMUer wrote. > > ... unless you use the -v option to dpkg-buildpackage to include the > changelog entries from all the NMUs, which I personally think should be > best practice.
I think it's a reasonable practice to only include the changes since the last version in the archive; anything more is redundant. I'd say the real bug is not sending the changes to the submitter when the bug is tagged 'fixed'. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
