Josh Triplett wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 00:04:20 +0100 Bill Allombert <ballo...@debian.org> wrote:
>> The fact that some upstream do not bother to ship useful changelog does >> not mean that all changelog are useless, and by removing them we >> discourage upstream of producing useful changelog. > > I sincerely hope so. Convincing upstreams to "git rm ChangeLog" becomes > much easier the more widespread existing practice we can point to. > Having a ChangeLog file in version control is actively detrimental. I agree with you about GNU-style changelogs. But I don't think I've seen those much outside of GNU packages. How do you feel about generated changelogs in release tarballs that are generated by tools like "git log"? > I would go so far as to say that I hope we one day stop shipping > a non-generated debian/changelog in source packages, because it incurs > all the same pain. I've been trying to make debian/changelog in packages I work on user-focused, and no one has complained yet. I also use NEWS.Debian for notes about incompatibilities that will affect sysadmins upgrading. Thanks, Jonathan
