Re: GNU vs. Debian standards?

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

   W. Borgert wrote:
   > 1. According to the GNU coding standards there has to be a
   > ChangeLog file in the top level directory of package.
   > Debian standards want me to put a changelog in the debian
   > subdirectory.  For a GNU package that is Debianized later
   > this is fine, because the first is maintained by the
   > upstream maintainer, the latter by the Debian package
   > maintainer.  But what, if there is no upstream source and I
   > want to be compliant to both standards?

   There's nothing wrong with a symlink.

Debian and GNU standards specify different formats.