Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.4.0 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
In order to include upstream changelog distributed in HTML, and convert it as a plain text changelog.gz, policy should advise the use of html2txt (which debhelper already depends on) rather than lynx that has fewer chance to already be on Build-Depends:. Cheers David
--- policy.sgml.cur 2010-05-03 15:36:32.000000000 -0400
+++ policy.sgml 2010-05-03 15:45:49.000000000 -0400
@@ -9216,7 +9216,7 @@
HTML, it should be made available in that form as
<file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/changelog.html.gz</file>
and a plain text <file>changelog.gz</file> should be generated
- from it using, for example, <tt>lynx -dump -nolist</tt>. If
+ from it using, for example, <tt>html2text</tt>. If
the upstream changelog files do not already conform to this
naming convention, then this may be achieved either by
renaming the files, or by adding a symbolic link, at the
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