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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?
From:       Sean Whitton <spwhitton () spwhitton ! name>
Date:       2018-01-03 14:26:43
Message-ID: 87r2r7t3vg.fsf () zephyr ! silentflame ! com
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Hello,

On Tue, Jan 02 2018, Markus Koschany wrote:

> The changelog is something which can be naturally derived from the
> changes made to a source package and excellent tools like
> git-buildpackage ("gbp dch") make this kind of work rather simple. A
> package description usually doesn't change. Only in rare circumstances
> it has to be adjusted.

Not of all of us use our git commits and changelogs in a way that is
compatible with this.

My git commits are much finer-grained than what I write in the
changelog.  And some commits to not warrant a mention in the changelog
at all -- as the Dev. Ref. says, the changelog is meant to be limited to
user-visible changes.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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