Re: Updating NEWS.Debian

2007-08-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Please don't CC me, as I read the list. On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:49:33AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > The reason? It's counterproductive and silly, when upgrading from > > oldstable to stable, to get lots of news that was eve

Re: Updating NEWS.Debian

2007-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > The reason? It's counterproductive and silly, when upgrading from > oldstable to stable, to get lots of news that was ever relevant only for > sid-to-sid upgrades. Better to do that cleanup near the freeze, if at all. Otherwise, once could eas

Re: Updating NEWS.Debian

2007-08-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 11:08:46AM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > I have seen some packages lately, most prominently apache2, that replace the > entire NEWS.Debian file when they have some news to report. That way, older > news are lost, and users who don't upgrade to every intermediate versio