Daniel Moerner wrote: > On 08/12/2009 03:01 PM, David Claughton wrote: >> Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 12 2009, Neil Williams wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:16:14 -0500 >>>> Manoj Srivastava <sriva...@debian.org> wrote: >>>> * updated Standards-Version (no changes needed) >>> Firstly, you do not ahve to put that into the changelog, and, >>> secondly, one should not have to update a packagejust to up the >>> standards version string. I just fix local git and wait for a real >>> reason to update the package. >>> >> >> I would add that updating the package just to bump the version is a >> really bad idea from the POV of the user, who gets to incur a bandwidth >> hit to d/l a new package that is identical to his/her existing one. >> >> > > I don't think that anyone was every seriously defending that people do > uploads just to bump the Standards-Version, I think the objection was > more that bumping the Standards-Version needlessly clutters the > changelog and wastes space. I'll admit I don't quite understand why, > though. It's up to the maintainer to be as verbose as he or she feels there. > > Daniel >
Fair enough - I thought Neil was implying that this sometimes happened but on re-reading this wasn't quite what he said ;-) Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
