On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:39:51PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > The first thing I wanted to find out, the separation of changelogs > happened in 1998 according to dpkg changelogs. > > dpkg (1.4.0.22) frozen unstable; urgency=medium > > * Non-maintainer bug-fix release > * Install main changelog file as `changelog.gz' instead of > `changelog.dpkg.gz' (Debian Policy, section 5.8) (Bug#6052,15157)
That doesn't demonstrate the point you claim above that it makes. That change was just a renaming. The previous state was that doc/changelog (for the debian-manuals package of the time, which later became debian-policy) was installed as "changelog.manuals" in the binary, and debian/changelog was installed as "changelog.dpkg"; after this change, there was still a "changelog.manuals" but debian/changelog was now installed as "changelog" installed. But there were two files both before and after that change. In any case, that wasn't a typical matter of an upstream changelog vs. Debian changelog, but more like two separate packages that were managed as part of the same source tree but had independent changelogs. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
