Package: devscripts Version: 2.8.15 Severity: normal NEWS.Debian files are intended to be parsable as changelogs, but not be formatted like changelogs. The example in devscripts is:
cron (3.0pl1-74) unstable; urgency=low
The checksecurity script is no longer included with the cron package:
it now has its own package, "checksecurity". If you liked the
functionality provided with that script, please install the new
package.
-- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:15:03 -0500
Note, no bullets, and longer, more detailed and user friendly descriptions of
changes. If there were a second entry here it would be in a new paragraph.
Lately I've seen some news files that look just like changelogs, and
I finally realized that dch --news is probably contributing to this, since
it creates a bulleted list of news items.
It should lose the bullets and add a new line between each news item instead,
hpefully this will encourage people to not enter changelog-writing mode
when writing news files.
(Also, my multi-maintainer patch to dch needs to become news file aware, and
not include maintainer names in news files.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages devscripts depends on:
ii debianutils 2.14.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.10 Package building tools for Debian
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii perl 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor
Versions of packages devscripts recommends:
ii fakeroot 1.4.1 Gives a fake root environment
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