On Sun, Jul 22 2018, Sean Whitton wrote: > The argument for including the recommendation is that a changelog is > not very useful in a binary package, except as a fallback when no > release notes are available. If you're going to dig into an upstream > changelog you will do so alongside a copy of the upstream source. So > distributing the upstream changelog in only the source package, and > not the binary package(s), makes most sense.
This is all very reasonable and I agree with the rationale. I hope this can move forward.