[maemo-developers] 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

[From: Guillem Jover]

Hi,

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 16:39:07 +0100, ext Andrew Flegg wrote:
> On 8/3/07, Eero Tamminen <eero.tamminen at nokia.com> wrote:
> > Please check what's available; kernel and X git repositories you should
> > find with Google, Application framework stuff you will find from Maemo
> > (until it's moved to Gnome), new Browser is in Garage.  For all the open
> > source(d) packages you find the debian source package from the maemo
> > repos and those contain change logs.  Maybe you could view them and tell
> > what specifically you're lacking?

> OK, so the only changelog we need is:
> 
>   * Moved from vX.Y.Z to vX.Y.Z2 of Xorg
>   * Moved from v2.6.20-arm-rmk0 to v2.26.23-arm-rmk1 of Linux kernel
>   * Moved from branches/20060403-HAF r3929 to branches/20070801-HAF r3829
>   * ...

Err, then I think the problem is that people don't seem to be talking
about the same things here.

When I read people demanding changelogs, for me that maps to
debian/changelog or GNU style kind of ChangeLog in the source tree.
Any package w/o a proper descriptive changelog is broken IMO, and it
must be fixed.

What you seem to be asking for, is some kind of Release Notes, with the
most important package versions, or really big features. And if I'm
not mistaken we have that already, it might be lacking, though.
Otherwise please explain exactly what are you requesting, I think Eero
is having the same problem understanding what people is asking.

> Of course, this presupposes there are absolute *zero* patches that
> you're maintaining internally for these things which aren't upstream.

I say that presupposition is wrong. Take Debian as an example, most
of the packages contain changes relative to upstream, yet this is not
announced in any kind of distro-wide Release Notes. It's present,
though, on the particular NEWS.Debian files or debian/changelogs.

regards,
guillem