On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Bill Cox <waywardg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have to admit I haven't figured out how to distribute ChangeLog >> properly. My google-fu is failing me. I'd like to get rid of the >> override. Also, like some other projects, like speech-dispatcher, I'm >> keeping the log in git, and ChangeLog is just a dummy file to make >> autotools happy. It doesn't really add any value to distribute it, >> but it makes 'lintian --pedantic' happy. What's the right thing to do >> in this case? > > Shipping an empty changelog file is useless. Either ship a useful > changelog in the upstream tarball or don't ship a less than useful > changelog in the Debian binary package. lintian is only informational > (especially at pedantic level), ignore its warnings if they are not > useful. > > For upstream projects I personally use git2cl or similar at `make > distcheck` time to generate a useful ChangeLog for inclusion in the > upstream tarball. > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTikMkíqpktdyof3ss-bxu_x8...@mail.gmail.com > >
Ok, I've installed git2cl, and updated the mkorig script to create ChangeLog, and uploaded a new version of the package. I still install it with an override, but I think this package is ready for a sponsor to upload. Any takers? Thanks, Bill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTinK8OiN=qqg_40kpplho851ovy...@mail.gmail.com
