Re: changelog of debian policy?
tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> wrote:
> > packaging of the policy, that URL's have passed by now. But what I guess
> > you mean is the changes between policy versions, i.e. what you need to
> > change to upgrade a package's standards-version. That information is
> > in /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz. I don't
> > think that's available online though.
>
> Which is somewhat ironic, given that upgrading-checklist starts out as
> upgrading-checklist.html in the debian-policy source package, and is then
> stripped of tags to be distributed as a .txt file.
>
> It might be nice to distribute it as html and/or fix-up the reference in
> section 1.2 to point this file. Perhaps the checklist could be referenced
> as an appendix or the like so that the <ref> tag could be used, and then
> dwww could easily find it as well. However, I'm not sure whether this is
> wishlist bug-worthy or not.
Hmm.. don't the maintainers of the policy keep it in revision
control somewhere?
- Tyler
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