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馃敡 chore: drop misc as a changelog fragment type - #3255
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towncrier ships a misc bucket by default, and entries land there when a change has no user-facing story to tell. The changelog should carry only what a user needs, so the type list is now spelled out without it. Naming the types also closes a quieter gap. towncrier skips a fragment whose type it does not recognise and says nothing, which is how .bufix.rst, .fix.rst and .docs.rst all went missing from past releases. A pre-commit hook now rejects any name in docs/changelog outside the allowed set, so a typo fails at commit time instead of vanishing.
pypa#3254 changed a comment in a workflow, so its entry has nothing to say to a user. It is also the one name in docs/changelog the new hook rejects.
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towncrier ships a
miscbucket by default, and it collects changes that have nothing to say to a user. 馃摑 The changelog reads better without it, so[tool.towncrier]now spells out the type list and leavesmiscoff.Writing the list down also closes a quieter gap. towncrier skips a fragment whose type it does not recognise, and it skips it in silence. Four fragments with misspelt suffixes missed their releases that way. Reviewers merged the files, and the entries went nowhere. The list also picks up
deprecation, which three fragments used despite it not being a default.An explicit list still will not make towncrier complain, so a
pre-commithook now rejects any name underdocs/changelogoutside the allowed set. A misspelt suffix fails at commit time instead of going missing at release time.