Hello, On Thu, Nov 30 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Unfortunately, there's no good way to do this transition without
> making a whole ton of packages buggy, since we're horribly
> inconsistent about how we handle this now. I think that's just
> something we should tackle, and make it very clear that this is a
> *minor* bug and people shouldn't harass maintainers about it, but we'd
> like to sort out this historic mess and switch to consistent usage of
> these two files.
We can at least make dh_installchangelogs capable of installing both
changelog.gz and NEWS.gz before we change Policy. Otherwise, fixing the
minor bugs is significantly more annoying.
On Fri, Dec 01 2017, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Is there some reason why exacdt standardisation of the filenames is
> necessary here ? For most of the uses I can think of, it is OK to
> look in a handful of files to see which one might answer the question.
Policy does not currently refer to the upstream NEWS/release notes. I
think it should at least say that such a thing should be installed if it
exists.
Currently, of upstream changelogs, Policy says
If an upstream changelog is available, it should be accessible as
/usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz in plain text. If the upstream
changelog is distributed in HTML ...
If we are going to add something that says that upstream NEWS/release
notes should also be installed, why not standardise on the location? It
seems odd to have a standard location for upstream changelogs but not
for upstream NEWS/release notes.
Or perhaps we should drop the standard location for upstream changelogs.
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Sean Whitton
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