Re: On autogenerated ChangeLog

[Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 ubuntu com> wrote:
> Le lundi 20 avril 2009 à 12:17 -0400, Dan Winship a écrit :
>> Who are these people who read ChangeLog
> Hi,
>
> The ChangeLog are quite handy for distribution packages, they have a
> list of the changes you can look at quickly and the closed bug numbers.
> Usually NEWS summary are either not there or listing only main changes
> in the new version and not enough to know what bugs you can close while
> doing the upgrade for example

Exactly, very useful when adapting downstream patches (and before you
go to kick my ass, there are various kinds of patches that can't and
won't go upstream including various distro-specific path
customizations at build time).

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Patryk Zawadzki