Hello,

On Tue 17 Dec 2024 at 02:08am -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> The symlink should have been removed at 927b478, and my local built
> package does not seem to have any symlink to CHANGELOG.org anymore.  Can
> you pull and retry?

Hmm, sorry.

But your install(1) invocation doesn't work, I think?  It doesn't get
installed to the /usr/share/doc.  I think you need to be copying into
debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/dap-mode/.

> IMHO treating Org mode documents as plain text is losing formatting
> information.

But we're not doing that :)  The lack of a file extension does not imply
there is no particular format.

> Similarly for markdown, Org mode files are plain text but not quite,
> as there are formatting information that are used to add more visual
> effect compared to plain text, and preserving them is good.  The
> policy supports NEWS.html and changelog.html.  Why not also treat
> CHANGELOG.{org,md} as a supported changelog format directly?  This
> saves maintainer time as well as preserve formatting information: if
> one installs CHANGELOG.org as changelog and would like to preserve
> formatting information, one may have to patch the file with `-*- mode:
> org -*-' cookie for Emacs, or maybe other treatments for other
> readers/editors, while CHANGELOG.org works OOTB and I doubt upstream
> would accept patches adding the cookies because CHANGELOG.org is
> working fine and changing the file name is the decision made by the
> Debian maintainer.  This puts Debian maintainer in a lose-lose
> position: having to do extra work, and changes may not be accepted
> upstream.

Maybe, but that's an issue to raise on Debian Policy mailing list or
bugtracker, not here.

> I found /usr/share/common-licenses contains a very limited list of
> DFSG-compatible licenses.  Is there any proposal to extend the list so
> that we don't have to include the full text for DFSG-compatible licenses
> anymore?

Yeah, It's been discussed numerous times.  Look in the debian-policy
list archives.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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