On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 02:20:08AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Karl> Also, "ChangeLog" files are named with capital `C' and `L' > Karl> when you use `C-x 4 a' with `add-log' in the emacsen. I > Karl> think we should permit that spelling, which is very standard > Karl> and more common than all lowercase, rather than symlinking > Karl> or renaming. I like it capitalized since that makes it sort > Karl> near the top of a directory listing in `dired' (or any other > Karl> file manager). > > Manoj> Are you proposing this as an amendment to the > Manoj> proposal? > > Karl> Sure. Will anyone second? > > Actually, I think I object to this amendment as it stands, > after reflection. Under the current policy, I always know where the > changelog is, upstream, or Debian. This new blurring of the name by > allowing mixde case makes for more confusion. I say that the name > should be allowed, as long as there exists a symlink so that people > looking for the debian's default location shall not be dissapointed. > > A symlink is not that hard to create in the rules file. And > compatibility and consistency requirements are enough to > justify the loss of an inode.
I'm not sure this is such a big issue. Or at least, I think it's reasonable in the upstream changelog to be as above, but I think Debian's should remain changelog.Debian for consistancy's sake. Is this perhaps more reasonable?
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