On 04/22/2012 02:48 PM, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
* Arno Töll<a...@debian.org> [120421 11:51]:
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
I strongly disagree. First of all, a changelog is there to see what has
changed when, i.e. it is a documentation of what important changed where
done and when (i.e. which package version) they were done for.
There is normally no reason to change older entries as most details get
less important over time, but if there is anything importing misleading
in them, something important incorrect or something important enough
missing, then not correcting the changelog is not acceptable in my eyes.
The new changelog should be about what was changed since the version
before (that might be some hint that the older changelog was corrected
if you prefer), but import changes in the old package should be in the
part of the changelog for the old package.
I fully agree with Bernhard - basically if there is a good reason to
improve old changelog entry, you should do it.
The idea of "freezing in time" and possibility to refer to an old, exact
version of changelog (or any other file) looks like to job for Version
Control software.
Tomek
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