On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:46:08AM +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > On native package the debian/changelog is also used for upstream > changelog: upstreams tend to package their packages as native. [...] > Thus non debian specific package, which are also native, > should (must on GPL licensed packages) have a separate > "upstream" changelog.
That doesn't follow. You're assuming it's going to be impossible to keep the original debian/changelog file, and/or that the only way to package something that an upstream has packaged as native is to package it as non-native. If I'm an upstream and a Debian maintainer for a particular package, and a downstream distribution wants to modify my package, then I think it's fairly reasonable for them to just modify the package, without having to repackage it entirely. People fork software *all the time*. This is no different. -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
