[SCM] calf audio plugins packaging branch, master, updated. debian/0.0.18.5-1-13-g1771d8e

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:29:18PM +0200, Adrian Knoth wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 06:16:24PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>> +  [ Jonas Smedegaard ]
>>> +  * Tidy copyright file: Adjust a few stanzas and declare it formatted
>>> +    according to draft DEP5 rev135.
>>> +  * Fix add a missed owner to copyright file (no new licenses).
>>> +  * Drop local CDBS snippets and locally declared DEB_MAINTAINER_MODE:
>>> +    All part of main CDBS now.
>>> +  * Refer to FSF website (not postal address) in rules file header.
>>> +  * Fix ALSA build-dependency auto-resolving (CDBS no longer horribly
>>> +    executes control.in file as a shell script).
>>> +  * Improve watch file: Add usage comment; relax pattern to non-digit
>>> +    versions and non-gzip tarball compression.
>>> +  * Fix DEP5 synatx of copyright file: append ./ in all files sections.
>>> +  * Improve copyright file: Refer to FSF website (not postal address),
>>> +    and put reference below Debian-specific comment to hint that it is
>>> +    not verbatim copied.
>>
>> Please another time look at possibilities of merging entries when 
>> doing git-dch.
>>
>> I would have merged and compacted the multiple changes to copyright 
>> file in above.
>
>Damn, you're right. Are we hitting a corner case here? With distributed 
>development, the original author probably knows best what's simply 
>cosmetics and what's worth to appear in the changelog.
>
>Given that I usually don't remember what I've done a couple of months 
>ago, I tend to add the changelog entries shortly after a period of 
>work, that is, when I think I'm not going to touch the package for the 
>next few weeks.
>
>Would it make sense, as a rule of thumb or even a team guideline, to 
>provide changelog entries when done with editing instead of using 
>git-dch just right before the upload? While the latter might work with 
>a single maintainer, I don't see how it could with multiple people 
>touching a package over several months.
>
>
>Anyway, I'll pay more attention next time.


I think we are both right: It makes sense *both* to update changelog 
after finishing a round of work *and* right before release.

I obviously got distracted back then: Today when I noticed your (many 
attempts at) upload, I looked at my local git and found some additional 
copyright file improvements that I hadn't commit'ed yet. :-)


  - Jonas

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