#244: Add Changelog summary feature to sdist
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: normal
Ghcversion: 6.8.2 | Platform:
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Comment (by guest):
ross: the nice thing about a VCS log is that it requires no developer
intervention or effort. (Never underestimate laziness!) Ideally developers
would give short perfect paragraphs summarizing every change. But
expecting the ideal is a quick route to failure.
Further, it errs on the side of too much information; 'packaging fixes and
internal cleanup' might hide important changes, like breaking backwards
compatibility. It's easier to sort through excess information than conjure
up information not there.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/244#comment:11>
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