Hi, On Wed, 15 May 2013, Helmut Grohne wrote: > > This new "Extends" field would imply that all meta-data (including other > > missing control fields) is shared with the bar package and at build-time > > it transparently gets a supplementary "Depends: bar (= <foo-version>)" but > > the .deb would not have any changelog/copyright. > > Also think about the upstream changelog. Some packages consist of 90% > changelogs which also shared with multiple binaries (e.g. tkmib). Not > sure how those could be turned into meta data as well though. Sometimes > they are only available as html.
They don't need to be turned into meta-data for this. dh_installchangelog could just not install the upstream changelog for packages which have this Extends fields (or put a symlink instead). Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130515075319.ga31...@x230-buxy.home.ouaza.com
