Peter Eisentraut writes ("Re: Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling"): > On 12/1/17 11:19, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Is there some reason why exacdt standardisation of the filenames is > > necessary here ? For most of the uses I can think of, it is OK to > > look in a handful of files to see which one might answer the question. > > I wrote the bug originally. > > My goal was simply to get more packages to ship release notes (NEWS), > and optionally, to get fewer packages to ship useless source-level > changelogs.
Those seem good goals. > A policy adjustment can help that a bit because that also influences > things like debhelper and a lot of packages just use that without much > further thought. Indeed. I think that means you are answering "no" to the question I posed above ? I think we are moving towards a form of words that would achieve your goals without requiring a lot of work to 100% standardise on the filenames. Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.