Re: man-pages-2.54 is released

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jun 8 2007 18:03, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>    Release Philosophy
>    ==================
>
>    If you make sweeping *formatting* changes on a large number of
>    pages, separate them out into their own release that contains
>    minimal *content* changes.  This makes it easier for the people
>    that want to verify content changes independently of the change
>    log.  Yes, some people actually diff each release to see what
>    changed; for example, downstream maintainers, and translators of
>    the man pages (such as the dedicated Alain Portal, in recent
>    times) sometimes like to do this.

I think that sounds more like a repository (svn/git) philosophy
than a release philosophy.


	Jan
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