Bug#1036832: should have update date near the title

Holger Wansing <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.documentation
Message-ID <20250216010919.36541048ae30963308d4c3f4__33335.0356014975$1739664754$gmane$org@mailbox.org>
Hi,

Marc Haber <[email protected]> wrote (Sat, 27 May 2023 21:00:25 +0200):
> while talking to Paul, we have found out that it might be a good idea to
> teach our users that the release notes DO get updated after the release,
> something that even I didn't know after 20 years of Debian.
> 
> Having the date of last update (of the English translation) prominently
> visible, preferable on the first screen of release notes being
> displayed, would be a good idea to share this information that way.

If we want this, I would propose something like the following:

The shown date should say, when the last change in *English* has happened;
changes to translations would not have to be taken into account here.



Rationale:
image the following situation, when *all* commits to release-notes would
update this date:

1.
we release trixie at the 01. Juli 2025; release-notes get updated on
that day as well; the date says "Last updated at: 2025-07-01". CORRECT

2.
nothing happens on the release-notes for 6 weeks.
The date still says "Last updated at: 2025-07-01" (since no new build
has happened). CORRECT

3.
Now some translator changes something for his language.
This would trigger a full rebuild of trixie's release-notes and therefore
the date would now say "Last updated at: 2025-08-15". 
But nothing had changed in English at that time! SO NOT CORRECT!



That's why I think, we should only take changes to English into account
here.
I have prepared a merge request for this:
https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/217
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