Bug#459427: Patch seeking seconds on changelog vs. NEWS handling

2018-07-22 Thread Yuri D';Elia
On Sun, Jul 22 2018, Sean Whitton wrote: > The argument for including the recommendation is that a changelog is > not very useful in a binary package, except as a fallback when no > release notes are available. If you're going to dig into an upstream > changelog you will do so alongside a

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-01-02 Thread Yuri D';Elia
On Mon, Jan 02 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > No matter what we do here, we're going to make a bunch of packages buggy, > because the archive is very divided on current best practice. :( Buggy in the sense that existing packages wouldn't comply with the new rules? I don't see this as "buggyness", b

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-01-02 Thread Yuri D';Elia
On Sun, Jan 01 2017, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > My personal opinion is that a changelog is something where every change > is guaranteed to be logged. (And that guarantee is basically just saying > that if it's ever noticed that a change was not logged, that's indeed a > bug.) > A NEWS file is some