Package: gzip
Version: 1.9-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Policy ยง12.7 has started to recommend installing upstream release notes
as /usr/share/doc/$package/NEWS.gz. In the case of gzip this seems to
be quite useful as the NEWS file documents important behavior changes
such as the deprecation of the GZIP variable in version 1.7.
diff -Nru gzip-1.9/debian/rules gzip-1.9/debian/rules
--- gzip-1.9/debian/rules 2018-08-05 02:30:09.000000000 +0200
+++ gzip-1.9/debian/rules 2018-09-10 17:52:57.000000000 +0200
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
i686-w64-mingw32-strip builddir-indep/gzip.exe
install -m 0755 builddir-indep/gzip.exe \
debian/gzip-win32/usr/share/win32/
- dh_installdocs -i README* TODO
+ dh_installdocs -i README* TODO NEWS
dh_installchangelogs -i ChangeLog
dh_lintian -i
dh_compress -i
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
bindir=${_topdir}/debian/gzip/bin
dh_testdir -s
dh_testroot -s
- dh_installdocs -s README* TODO
+ dh_installdocs -s README* TODO NEWS
dh_installman *.1
dh_installinfo -s doc/gzip.info
dh_installchangelogs -s ChangeLog
