On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:29:50AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 12/1/17 11:19, 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. > > I wrote the bug originally. > > My goal was simply to get more packages to ship release notes (NEWS), > and optionally, to get fewer packages to ship useless source-level > changelogs. > > A policy adjustment can help that a bit because that also influences > things like debhelper and a lot of packages just use that without much > further thought.
The issue is that dh_installchangelogs cannot easily detect if a changelog is a VCS changelog and whether a NEWS is actually a changelog. The only reasonable thing dh_installchangelogs can do is to install everything that looks like a changelog or a NEWS file. However, I am concerned that having dh_installchangelogs removing files will lead to less predictability. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
