On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Branden Robinson told me that he does changelog editing of past
> revisions continuously for X, for reasons of being able to correctly
> lookup when a certain bug was fixed. Especially typo's in bugnumber for
> example can mak
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Policy section 4.4 states:
>
>Mistakes in changelogs are usually best rectified by making a new
>changelog entry rather than "rewriting history" by editing old
>changelog entries.
>
> This is the source of my habits on this point. When I rea
Jeroen van Wolffelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:01:34PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
>> ... or put an entry in the latest changelog block with a parenthetical
>> remark saying that bug was actually fixed by version x.y-z.
>
> I've seen this done more often, and frank
Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I personally feel that adding new changelog "blocks" is okay but
> editing old changelog blocks isn't okay, even if you are going to do a
> subsequent build with a -v when you go back to unstable. I would
> either close the bug manually or put an entry
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:01:34PM -0500, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:
> ... or put an entry in the latest changelog block with a parenthetical
> remark saying that bug was actually fixed by version x.y-z.
I've seen this done more often, and frankly, in my opinion this really
is ugly. There is text in a
Frank KÃster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it seems to be consensus that one should generally not "correct" older
> changelog entries, like adding (closes: #...) if it turns out later that
> this bug had been closed by this release. I am wondering whether there
> is an exception to this rule, nam
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 05:10:39PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it seems to be consensus that one should generally not "correct" older
> changelog entries, like adding (closes: #...) if it turns out later that
> this bug had been closed by this release. I am wondering whether there
>
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