Dropping old PPA entries from PPA changelogs

Martin Pool mbp at canonical.com
Wed Sep 22 04:05:40 BST 2010


On 22 September 2010 07:02, Max Bowsher <maxb at f2s.com> wrote:
> I'm currently reviewing the content of the PPA branches in preparation
> to building 2.2.1 PPA packages.
>
> I've noticed that there are various minor changes which are persisting
> in the PPA branches as compared to the Debian unstable branch - things
> like minor builddeps differences, or Standards-Version lines differing,
> which speak of imperfect merging in the past. It's my intention to
> examine and revert these back to congruence with the unstable branch for
> the 2.2.1 ppa packages.
>
> Whilst I'm staring hard at these diffs, I notice huge diffs in the
> changelogs, which are basically just lots of "Target PPA" entries.
>
> I propose, and seek consensus approval, to revert the PPA
> debian/changelog file back to an exact copy of the Debian one before
> adding the 2.2.1 PPA changelog entry, provided always that when doing
> so, any changes that _do_ remain vs. the Debian version are to be
> documented in the PPA changelog entry.
>
> I feel this will tidy things up and make it considerably easier to audit
> local changes in the PPA branches vs. Debian.

That makes sense to me.  It seems like you should document this in ppa.txt.


-- 
Martin



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