Re: Branching changelogs or not (Was: debian/changelogs, legacy work on packages and other distros)

2011-02-13 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-02-13, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:47:22PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 16:51:26 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >> > 3. Whether changelogs should be branched for different Debian >> > releases, be it testing-proposed-updates, backports o

Re: Branching changelogs or not (Was: debian/changelogs, legacy work on packages and other distros)

2011-02-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 09:47:22PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 16:51:26 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > 3. Whether changelogs should be branched for different Debian > > releases, be it testing-proposed-updates, backports or even > > derivatives as Ubuntu o

Re: Branching changelogs or not (Was: debian/changelogs, legacy work on packages and other distros)

2011-02-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 16:51:26 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > 3. Whether changelogs should be branched for different Debian > releases, be it testing-proposed-updates, backports or even > derivatives as Ubuntu or others. > As the package itself is branched, the changelog should be, t

Re: Branching changelogs or not

2011-02-12 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Tille writes: > [Reply-To set to debian-devel] > > Hi, > > on the Debian Med list a discussion about handling changelogs was started[1] > which addressed the following questions: > > 1. What to do with pre-Debian-Release changelogs (if packaging > needed some time and went through

Re: Branching changelogs or not

2011-02-06 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Feb 06 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > > 2. Whether upstream changelogs should be copied fully or in > parts copied into Debian changelog and I think the New > maintainers guide[3] gives a clear answer to mention only > the changes of this *new* release specifically if these