Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes:
>> are there concrete problems caused by modifying previous changelog >> entries ? > Doing that breaks the entirely reasonable expectation: that a changelog > only ever accumulates entries for the latest release, and nothing in > earlier releases has changed since the last time the recipient read > them. I think the absolute prohibition takes things a bit too far. The changelog is documentation, and therefore can have bugs, just like any other documentation. If there is a bug, such as a missing entry for a change that was made in an earlier version, I fix it like any other bug: correct the changelog for that version, and add a note in the changelog for the most recent version that I fixed the documentation bug. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zka4v4vx....@windlord.stanford.edu
