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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?
From:       Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= <agx () sigxcpu ! org>
Date:       2018-01-07 14:33:16
Message-ID: 20180107143316.GA7786 () bogon ! m ! sigxcpu ! org
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Hi,
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 02:26:43PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
> 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.

(This is not an attempt to convince you of another workflow)

gbp-dch allows you to skip these commits based on tags present in the
commit message: "Gbp-Dch: Ignore". I use this frequently for patch
series that add up to "a user visible result" I want present in the
changelog. I also find deleting text from superfluous commits simpler
than writing new entries from scratch (for things I've already typed into
a commit message). 

Cheers,
 -- Guido

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