Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes:
>> All of the packages for which I'm both upstream and the Debian packager >> have no traditional ChangeLog file, only NEWS, and install the upstream >> NEWS file as /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.gz. > Perhaps that could be made clear; it's surely an obvious conclusion (but > wrong, by your assessment) that the upstream ChangeLog should be used > for that purpose. > Indeed, that's what ‘dh_installchangelogs(1)’ will do: > If there is an upstream changelog file, it will be be installed as > usr/share/doc/package/changelog in the package build directory. > Do you advocate a change to this behaviour? What, exactly? There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably be discussed. When packaging other people's software, I install the upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as NEWS.gz. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
