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

Updating NEWS.Debian

2007-08-09 Thread Peter Eisentraut
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 version (say, those who upgrade only between stable releases) are left in the