Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > The format of these NEWS files greatly varies, but most of them seem to > contain information which I would expect to find when I'm looking for an > upstream changelog file. Best practice is certianly to include the NEWS file as that name (compressed), but make changelog.gz a link to it. It gets more interesting when there are both upstream ChangeLog and NEWS files, then you have to choose which is more changelog-ish and/or useful. > Should I file a mass bug report about this problem (on my system, 59 out > of 2340 installed packages have a NEWS.gz but no changelog.gz) ? Sure, why not. Don't inflate the severity though. > Would it make sense to include a warning in lintian about this kind of > problem ? This sounds like a very good idea. -- see shy jo
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