On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > The BTS doesn't read changelogs.
>
> It does.
[...]
> The "versions" graph like this one are built by the BTS by aggregating
> infos from changelogs found in the various suites:
The BTS doesn't read the
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>
> > A question on this: would the BTS re-read the fixed changelog in
> > future uploads to update the version graph anyhow, or will it do that
> > only if the .changes file will contain all relevant entr
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:19:44PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Do you use version control systems? (Particularly any of the ones that
> store your email address at the time of the commit.) You can't go
> updating your address in old commits, and IMHO the changelog should be
> treated just the sam
* Noah Slater [Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:35:02 +]:
> > > Sure. Doing so satisfies my OCD need for consistency though. Heh
> > > heh.
> > Surely consistency would argue *against* changing the historical
> > record? When those releases were made, the email address was as
> > recorded at the time. Tha
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> A question on this: would the BTS re-read the fixed changelog in
> future uploads to update the version graph anyhow, or will it do that
> only if the .changes file will contain all relevant entries? (as in
> "dpkg-buildpackage -vXXX")
The BTS does
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:38:48PM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> In fact, I can think of one case where I'd actually encourage it. We
> occasionally update packages to solve security issues before a CVE
> number for the particular vulnerability is known. Retroactively
> modifying the changelog t
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 09:07:06AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Sure. Doing so satisfies my OCD need for consistency though. Heh
> > heh.
>
> Surely consistency would argue *against* changing the historical
> record? When those releases were made, the email address was as
> recorded at the time. Th
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:20:17PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> > * Is it okay to occasionally modify old changelog entries for clarity and
> > style, typos and such like, as long as you don't change the semantics?
>
> The occassional fix for the previous few changelog entries is probably
Noah Slater writes:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:06:53PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> > On Mon, January 19, 2009 13:00, Noah Slater wrote:
> > > * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you
> > > change your email address, when you do a new upload, is it okay
> > > to modify a
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Noah Slater wrote:
> * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your
>email address, when you do a new upload, is it okay to modify all of the
> old
>changelog entries to use the new email address?
It is better that you leave as
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 01:06:53PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Mon, January 19, 2009 13:00, Noah Slater wrote:
> > I have two separate, but related, questions not covered by policy:
> >
> > * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your
> > email address, when you
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Noah Slater wrote:
> * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your
> email address, when you do a new upload, is it okay to modify all of the
> old
> changelog entries to use the new email address?
I wouldn't.
> * Is it okay to occasi
On Mon, January 19, 2009 13:00, Noah Slater wrote:
> I have two separate, but related, questions not covered by policy:
>
> * If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your
> email address, when you do a new upload, is it okay to modify all of the
> old changelog entries t
Hey,
I have two separate, but related, questions not covered by policy:
* If you are the only person mentioned in a changelog and you change your
email address, when you do a new upload, is it okay to modify all of the old
changelog entries to use the new email address?
* Is it okay
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