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Re: Problem with debuild and changelog



Gerhard Brauer <gerhard.brauer@web.de> writes:

> Here it has. The run of autogen.sh creates the debian/changelog from the
> template debian/changelog.in. For explain (my english ist not the best)
> if i mentioned template debian/changelog.in i mean it is already in the
> source tree; not on my system.

Standard Debian packaging practices don't let you do this sort of thing
and require a hand-maintained changelog file with hand-written new entries
for each new version.  The standard packaging tools like debuild therefore
are not prepared to deal with this and probably are not going to cope.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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