Bug#850611: src:org-mode: Please document elpa-like snapshot date in changelog

Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> writes:

>> On Jan/08, Olivier Berger wrote:
>>> Having some kind of upstream changelog comparable to upstream's could
>>> help also.
>>
>> I agree, but that's also not something available inside the
>> tarball. Would you like to open an upstream bug asking them to package
>> the release notes, and then we can also have it in Debian ?
>
> I'm not sure if Olivier ever contacted you about providing a changelog
> in the release tarball (or in the docs in git), but I wanted to write to
> you to say that I would also appreciate this, and I'd like to include
> them in the Debian package.  Olivier's wish appears to be to make it
> easier to determine whether switching from the Debian-provided package
> to the direct use of your ELPA package would resolve one or more bugs.

Do you mean etc/ORG-NEWS? It should be included in the ELPA tarball.