On 21.04.2012 09:35, Charles Plessy wrote: > are there concrete problems caused by modifying previous changelog entries ? > I > do it from time to time, of course not when the diff has to be carefully > inspected by others as it would be a distraction, and I have not found it > causing breakages.
The whole point of a changelog is a time dependent frozen point of view at your package. Once you released a version of a package, you should consider it untouchable as it would confuse people _a lot_ if you force them to read a full backlog of changes every time they upgrade because you /could/ have modified more than the latest entry. Generally speaking it may be ok-ish in important cases to change previous entry if you restrict yourself to spelling fixes and formating changes, but it is completely unacceptable [to me, at least] to reformulate entries, add entries, remove entries and such. Of course that's nothing which should be advocated on a mailing lists where the purpose of it is to assist people to make proper, well made and clean packages. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D
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