[Pkg-sql-ledger-discussion] Closing bugs in debian/changelog

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Robert James Clay wrote:
>     What I now realize I could have done is either to update the
> 1.3.16-1 entry closing the bug and add an item to the 1.3.18 entry about
> doing so.
> And it still would have been found and closed with the 1.3.18
> upload because the previous upload had actually been 1.3.15-2 and it
> would have scanned the changes since then and closed the bug.

Yes, sort of. That's because I took care to build the package with
"-v1.3.15-2". Otherwise the default behaviour is to only include the 
topmost entry.

>  Or, since the effective version for the closing of the bug would be
>  1.3.18-1 in any case;  I could have had the actual closing in the
>  1.3.18-1 entry, even mentioning that it was v1.3.16 that resolved it
>  but without making any changes to the 1.3.16-1 changelog entry itself.

Yes.

Cheers,
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