Steve Greenland wrote: > > Fine if you don't care about preserving the name. It can be important to > > preserve the name if some other document refers to CHANGES, or if > > you think the upstream author might refer to the CHANGES sometime or > > be annoyed that you renamed it. > > > > I don't think something should go in policy that outlaws this option > > and mandates on of the below options. > > Would expand a little on this? You seem to disaprove of not providing > the change log under its original name (modulo .gz) (and I agree), but > then don't think policy should forbid it, and more to the point, the > default of dh_installchangelogs isn't '-k'.
The default would become -k if something about preserving names was added to policy. I don't think the name always has to be preserved, it seems that in some cases there would be no benefit from doing so. As I said at the top of this messages, there are circumstances where it adds value.. but I don't see any proof that it _always_ adds value. -- see shy jo
