at bottom :-
On 28/08/2017, Guillem Jover <guil...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 12:50:48 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> It did take a little while for the current format to evolve. For
>> example, very early source packages had changes recorded in a
>> "debian.README" file in somewhat ad-hoc formats.
>>
>> I think the current changelog format arrived with dpkg 1.3.x in August
>> 1996 (https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1996/08/msg00369.html etc.),
>> but true old-timers might remember more.
>
> I think it's older than that. But it might not have been "formalized"
> until that point because there was no tool to parse it automatically
> before then.
>
> Check the tail of the dpkg changelog, which is one of the oldest ones
> I know is still currently present in unstable, and you'll see that
> evolution taking place:
>
>
> <http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/d/dpkg/unstable_changelog>
>
> Thanks,
> Guillem
>
Dear Guillem,
Thank you for pointing in the right direction.
The first thing I wanted to find out, the separation of changelogs
happened in 1998 according to dpkg changelogs.
dpkg (1.4.0.22) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer bug-fix release
* Install main changelog file as `changelog.gz' instead of
`changelog.dpkg.gz' (Debian Policy, section 5.8) (Bug#6052,15157)
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Juan Cespedes <cespe...@debian.org> Sun, 5 Apr 1998 17:37:01 +0200
And the earliest mention as correctly pointed out by you started In
August 1994 itself.
Thu Aug 25 11:46:27 1994 Ian Murdock (imurd...@debra.debian.org)
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ChangeLog begins Thu Aug 25 11:46:27 1994 for dpkg 0.93.5.
which means it was there from starting itself.
Thank you again for sharing that.
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