On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:54:20AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Ross Vandegrift <r...@kallisti.us> writes: > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > > > Rather, I have a counter-question for you: why are you keeping > > > entries for unreleased uploads in d/changelog? I find it rather > > > confusing, mostly useless and with no real upsides as opposed to > > > cohalesce the entries. > > > > Good question. I guess I think of a changelog as history - so changes > > I made on 1.15 go with 1.15 whether it was released or not. > > Thanks for explaining your perspective. > > That perspective, I think, does not match the stated purpose for the > Debian package changelog: to inform *recipients* of the package about > changes between *releases* of that package.
It's arguable what to do when the Debian packaging is being used _publicly_ outside Debian. In that case, I'd say it's reasonable to allow history of such unofficial releases. But for your local WIP? No way. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Meow! ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ I was born a dumb, ugly and work-loving kid, then I got swapped on ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ the maternity ward.
