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Subject:	Re: does anyone care about package minor version bump announcements?
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On 11/19/2015 10:13 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> Does anyone care about that?  Lately I don't.  In fact I've skipped sending
> the last few, and no one seems to have noticed.
> 
> Can we leave it to the maintainer's discretion about whether they need to
> send one of those on every update?  Maybe it already is, and I didn't know.
> Of course some updates are important or need explanation or a headsup, and
> then the maintainer should send one.

My opinion is that every time the package is modified there should be an
announcement of the new package and what was changed.  Pointing to a
ChangeLog may be fine but not announcing the change is just wrong.

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