On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 08:50:11PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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. > > Yeah, I don't agree on debian/changelog. I write debian/changelog by > hand, and will always continue to do so, and I think it's extremely > valuable. I also read all debian/changelog files for all packages I > install on my system, and find that incredibly useful when maintainers put > real information in them.
I *do* use apt-listchanges to reach changelogs, and I'm not advocating that they not exist; I'm simply arguing that they make it a pain to keep a Debian package in git, and that we ought to autogenerate them from git log and some care taken in commit messages. - Josh Triplett
