On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 07:22:45PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17 2017, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.1.1 Severity: normal > > > > Section 4.4 explains quite a bit about debian/changelog, but doesn't > > really explain its purpose. > > Have you seen Developer's Reference 5.2? That gives more detail. I am > reluctant to duplicate that in Policy.
I have, it does, and that's a reasonable reluctance. But I don't see anything there that would tell a new contributor about the intended audience(s) of debian/changelog. It could be that this bug would be better filed against Developer's Reference, if that would be a better location. Ross