On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > On 12/08/2013 03:04 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> I've been working with gtimelog's upstream maintainer Marius, and with the >> permission of the old gtimelog Debian maintainers, have added it to PAPT. >> Please note that gtimelog was removed from Debian a while ago, but remained >> in >> Ubuntu, and now the plan is to add the latest upstream version back to >> Debian. I've put myself as Maintainer and PAPT as uploaders. >> >> Here's my question though: the d/changelog in PAPT svn has a bunch of entries >> from the times it was updated in Ubuntu ahead of Debian. There's useful >> information in there, but I'm wondering if I should trim d/changelog to just >> the changes that occurred in Debian. E.g. dropping everything between >> 0.0+svn88-3 (last squeeze version) to 0.9.1-1 which will be the new upload. >> OTOH, I suppose it doesn't hurt that much to keep all the Ubuntu changelog >> entries in the file. >> >> Anybody have strong opinions either way? >> >> -Barry > > My take on this is that what you are writing is a debian/changelog, > meaning that what you care here, is to have a log file of what is > changing in Debian. I mean, you don't care Ubuntu, Mint, or whatever, > you really want to document what has happened in Debian, and have your > debian/changelog match the revisions that can be seen in the PTS. > > If there are changes that have happened in Ubuntu, then it's a very good > idea to list them in your debian/changelog if you import these changes. > However, I would consider bad practice if this means putting them in > changelog entries for versions which never were in Debian. So you > shouldn't just copy some entries for revisions that have never been in > Debian (because that will not reflect the reality of the package), but > probably put them all in a single changelog entry. > > In this specific case, I would suggest that you write something like this: > > * Reintroduce the package after it was removed from Debian. > * Import Ubuntu changes which happened there when the package was removed: > - Whatever ... > - Whatever ... > > What I wrote as "Whatever" can be an exact copy of what you have found > in the Ubuntu debian/changelog file, and you can even reference dates > and Ubuntu package release numbers if you like. So, something like: > > - [release 1.2.3-4, 2013-01-02] Whatever ... > > Of course, the above is what *I* would do, and there's no Debian policy > regarding this. Though I think it does make sense. > > Your thoughts?
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