Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-09 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Andres Salomon wrote: The exact quote from the current policy is: If the package has only one changelog which is used both as the Debian changelog and the upstream one because there is no separate upstream maintainer then that changelog should usually be installed as

Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:38:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: The method of finding a package's changelog that I had always assumed would be used is: if (the package is native via dpkg) return /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz else return

Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-04 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:28:55PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: dh_installchangelogs (debhelper-3.4.11) currently bails if one attempts to install a non-debian changelog to /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz in a debian-native package. Joey Hess has mentioned that various tools expect the

Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-04 Thread Chris Waters
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:28:55PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: dh_installchangelogs (debhelper-3.4.11) currently bails if one attempts to install a non-debian changelog to /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz in a debian-native package. Ok. I think maybe that's a bug, but I'm willing to be