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On 28/01/2017, Kunal Mehta <lego...@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 01/27/2017 04:17 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> I just had a look in mediawikis debian packaging via
>>
>> $ apt-get source --diff-only mediawiki
>> $ tar xvf mediawiki_1.27.1-3.debian.tar.xz
>>
>> and seeing the output of the resultant debian directory. I saw the
>> changelog.gz but find it pretty hard to parse major interesting
>> changes to the upstream package. Having a NEWS.gz which showcases the
>> BIG changes between major version change would be good for mediawiki
>> and mediawiki users.
>
> There's already a mediawiki.NEWS file[1] which points to the more
> complete list of changes, is that not sufficient?
>
> [1]
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/MDEB/browse/master/debian/mediawiki.NEWS
>
>
Dear Kunal,
I think I failed to get the point across. Let's take the link you have
shared itself.
I had actually downloaded the source to see what all was in the package.
While the documentation is very detailed with
/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.27.1/debian/mediawiki.NEWS and
/mediawiki/mediawiki-1.27.1/debian/changelog.
What seems to be missing is a high-level overview. For instance, if I
were to ask you what were the biggest 5-10 changes between mediawiki
1.26 and mediawiki 1.27 I'm sure you would be able to share/tell in a
jiffy.
That sort of high-level changes I want to know about . What the
upstream changelogs do is tell everything including the kitchen sink
but don't tell which are the ones which are either 'interesting' or to
watch out for .
It would be nicer if those changes could be hand-picked and put in a
NEWS file so it's easier for a potential user to know/see what the big
changes were in any two versions.
Looking forward to know.
--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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