Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> writes: > In which case all we need is the existing lintian check and for > Standards-Version to be ignored by dpkg-dev so that it doesn't get into > the .dsc, it doesn't get into the Sources.gz and it is finally OK to get > rid of all these pointless messages in debian/changelog.gz: > > * updated Standards-Version (no changes needed)
If you don't want to put that in your changelog, don't. I consider it something I want to document in my packages, so I do. I would continue doing so even if it were an optional field (although I am completely opposed to making it optional). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org