Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Q2: The information in the trailer line of the changelog entry in a new > branch is not meaningful. Depending on the vcs etc. in use, it can > cause pointless merge conflicts. Often the information is quite wrong: > for example, a date which is earlier than the most recent commit. The > Emacs changelog mode doesn't like editing finalised changelog entries. > IME several of our tools deal badly with unfinalised changelog entries. > For example, mergechangelogs mishandles them, and some parts of the > package building toolchain sometimes complain. However, such bugs can > be fixed and the fixes deployed fairly easily (via backports if > necessary).
It also throws a bunch of Lintian errors, although I suppose that's fixable as well. I really want something that will pass Lintian completely but that dput will refuse to upload, which is what UNRELEASED currently accomplishes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
