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Philipp Kern pkern at ubuntu.com
Sun Nov 13 12:29:34 UTC 2011


Steve,

am Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 06:43:50PM -0800 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
> > I'm not sure what to do with that - maybe pkgbinarymangler should
> > remove NEWS entries not included in the shrunk changelog?
> This would negatively impact the purpose of said NEWS files, which is to
> notify users of changes in the software since the previous version they had
> installed.  There's absolutely no guarantee that the relevant news was
> introduced within the last 10 most recent uploads - especially if the user
> is doing an LTS->LTS upgrade.

speaking about LTS→LTS upgrades: do tools like apt-listchanges work with such
stripped changelogs?  Shouldn't all changelog entries since the last LTS be
included?

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern
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