How to handle newly added debian/changelog entries [was: Re: Bug#356573: [boson] I might as well do something good]

[Miriam Ruiz]

It's a good idea :) Anything against it?

If not, please add it to the wiki page describing our SVN :)

Greetings,
Miry

 --- Eddy Petriºor <eddy.petrisor at gmail.com> escribió:

> Hello all,
> 
> Just a suggestion for handling the debian/changelog file. (I have seen
> this being done in other teams, too)
> 
> On 3/13/06, Gonéri Le Bouder <goneri at rulezlan.org> wrote:
> > Le Dimanche 12 Mars 2006 23:59, Eddy Petriºor a écrit:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > After my mistake, please add someting along th elines of:
> > >
> > > Index: debian/changelog
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- debian/changelog    (revision 249)
> > > +++ debian/changelog    (working copy)
> > > @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
> > > +boson-base (0.11-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> 
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I feel that the correct way to handle new versions is to place
> "UNRELEASED" in the suite field instead of "unstable". This way it
> will be known where one should add modifications and their logs in the
> changelog.
> 
> I personaly was under the impression that 0.11-4 was already in Debian
> unstable and somebody forgot to add a new changelog entry.
> 
> Also, please mark in the commit text (of svn) when the new entry in
> the debian/changelog file was added, so is easier to track down.
> 
> Just before the preparation of the pakage the suite is changed, and
> imediately after the build is done, a new changelog entry is added
> (dch) and afterwards, manualy change the suite from unstable to
> "UNRELEASED".
> 
> 
> --
> Regards,
> EddyP
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