Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> writes: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2019 at 11:21:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> This is the typical practice, including all the intermediate >> experiments or false starts in experimental. >> I sympathize with wanting to clean up some of that, but as a project we >> generally have decided to live with that. Most users don't read the >> full changelog anyway (user-visible notes should be in NEWS instead, >> which are shown to more people via apt-listchanges), and removing >> versions from the history has bad effects on the bug-tracking system, >> historical archives, etc. > Well... I don't think there's anything good that can be done about the > entries about the unstable uploads that have happened in between... Yeah, that's true. Upload history is a graph and I have no idea how to linearize that. In that scenario, I'm not sure I have any recommendations. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
