On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 05:55:11PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 22:31 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > * On the first upload, debian/changelog should have just one entry. > > This is somewhat clumsy if you have a history of this package in > > your private/local repository (like me with debs of kbtin on > > SourceForge), but I remember someone being shouted upon for this. > > I can't recall the reason, but I guess someone can say what it was. > > I'm not sure about a specific incident, but in general I'd say that for > an otherwise unreleased package, more than one changelog entry is quite > redundant. There's no reason to bother people with the different > versions that never left your hard drive, so why include it? Keep it > simple. Since, unfortunately, some people maintain packages for quite a long time before they get uploaded, even if they persued an upload from the beginning. A changelog with historical information for that period adds information at low cost, so I wouldn't hesitate to keep it.
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