Hello, On Sun 15 Dec 2024 at 10:52pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:
> To look at it from complexity point of view, installing CHANGELOG.org as > changelog requires the following minimum change: > 1) Not included CHANGELOG.org in d/docs (which now only includes > NEWS.org), > 2) Override dh_installdocs to install CHANGELOG.org as changelog, > while using a symlink from changelog to CHANGELOG.org requires: > 1) Include CHANGELOG.org in d/docs, > 2) Add linking to changelog in d/links, > 3) Compress CHANGELOG.org by overriding dh_installdocs as it's not > compressed by default and it's required for changelog.gz, > 4) Add a lintian override for that what-I-think-is-a-false-positive > tag. > So the former wins here, and I have implemented it now in Salsa. Hmm, commit a2c1074 on salsa is otherwise okay but still does the symlinking, did you forget to push? > [ On the other hand, I think using CHANGELOG.org is becoming a common > practice in many ELPA packages and it should be considered a supported > format for changelog. I'll probably follow-up on this in another bug > to see if this would be acceptable, so that step 2-4 of the latter > won't be required. What would be a good place to file such a wishlist > bug? ] Again, file extensions don't matter. Writing CHANGELOG in Org format is indeed common; there is nothing wrong with installing it without its file extension. So, I don't think there is anywhere that has a bug. > Ack. It looks like policy 12.5 does say copyright information should be > verbatim, however as we can group the copyright holder spanning multiple > years, it becomes "not-verbatim" then. Oh well, guess nothing is > perfect. Yes, good point. >> You'll need a copy of the entire EPL-2.0, per Policy 12.5. >> > > Lintian warns about not including CC-BY-SA-4.0 full text but doesn't > warn about EPL-2.0. Anyway, I think including the full text is the safe > bet and this has been done. > > PTAL. Rather than relying on Lintian, just take a look under /usr/share/common-licenses and see what's there :) -- Sean Whitton
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