Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-05 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 10:38:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > The method of finding a package's changelog that I had always assumed > would be used is: > > if (the package is native via dpkg) > return /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz > else > return /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.

Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-05 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:21:39PM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Frankly, as far as I'm concerned, if something is a Debian-native > package, it should only have one changelog. If there's any reason for > maintaining two, then that probably counts as sufficient justification > for NOT creating a D

Bug#96597: changing policy requirements for debian native packages to _MUST_

2002-03-05 Thread Andres Salomon
Point taken, I shouldn't be abusing the debian native concept. My original point still stands, however; either policy needs to be changed/clarified wrt debian native changelogs, or dh_installchangelogs (plus any other tools w/ similar behavior) need to be fixed. I guess the current consensus is t