On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:07:01PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> >> * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must
> >> >> have
> >> >> been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes:
> >> >> Bug#193903
> >>
> >> > Tsk, bad Manoj (or whoever). If you didn't make a change, there
> >> > shouldn't be an entry or closer in the changelog.
> >>
> >> The hell with that. Nit picky changelog lawyers notwithstanding, I
> >> shall always continue to include in my changelog information I deem
> >> useful to the users, and people trying to determine why and when
> >> bugs were closed.
>
> > Calm down, he thought that this change was made at some random point
> > in the past (rather than in the same upload), which would indeed be
> > inappropriate by your own definition.
>
> Not quite. There was indeed a change in the package, a change
> important enough to result in closing of a bug report. No matter when
> the change occurred, it needed to be documented in the changelog --
> and it was.
But it would have been pointless to use the changelog now if it was #1234,
forgotten since 1994 or so :)
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