On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 02:44:00AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 30.01.2007, 01:54 +0100 schrieb Magnus Holmgren: > > I better ask this once and for all... > > > > I maintain a package where the upstream author has two changelog files: A > > brief one called Changes, summarizing the changes, and a detailed one > > called > > ChangeLog, which contains a detailed list of changes made to the various > > source files. Which one should be installed as "changelog"? > > > > I'd guess the brief one, since it's the one users are most likely to want > > to > > read first, but on the other hand it looks a bit confusing with both a > > changelog(.gz) and a ChangeLog. > > I agree to this. I normally prefer to install the NEWS file (release > changelog) instead of the ChangeLog file (file changelog). It's shorter > and easier to understand. File changelogs are often very detailed and > important information is hard to find. I would prefer to have both available to me, with the detailed changelog as changelog.gz and the summary as NEWS.gz. dh_installchangelogs handles this with ./debian/package.NEWS.
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