Bug#932119: please use debian/NEWS only for relevant news for developers

[Martin Zobel-Helas]

Package: libimage-exiftool-perl
Version: 11.16-1
Severity: important

Hi,

libimage-exiftool-perl's debian/NEWS.Debian currently lists every API
change to the package. I do belive that API changes should only be
relevant for developers, but not for users.

Dev-Ref states at §6.3.5:

<quote>
Unlike changelog files, you need not update NEWS.Debian files with every
release. Only update them if you have something particularly newsworthy
that user should know about.
</quote>

I read that as: Do not list every API changes in NEWS.Debian.

Best regards,
Martin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libimage-exiftool-perl depends on:
ii  perl  5.28.1-6

Versions of packages libimage-exiftool-perl recommends:
ii  libarchive-zip-perl        1.64-1
ii  libposix-strptime-perl     0.13-1+b5
ii  libunicode-linebreak-perl  0.0.20190101-1

libimage-exiftool-perl suggests no packages.

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