peter karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Manuel Estrada Sainz:
>> The first problem is that I generate the changelog automaticly from CVS
>> which seams too big and verbose for a debian changelog but I am not
>> suposed to have an upstream changelog in a pure debian package.
>
>Well, I "cheat" myself, with both a standard changelog and a Debian
>changelog (and so does dpkg, BTW). To do this, I install the files
>myself, not with debhelper:
>
> cp -a ChangeLog debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/{package}/changelog
> cp -a debian/changelog debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/{package}/changelog.Debian
>
>in debian/rules.
Why couldn't you use 'dh_installchangelogs ChangeLog' to achieve the
same effect? I wouldn't mention it except that you specifically said
"not with debhelper".
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
