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Re: Debian changelog vs upstream changelog



On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jonathan Wiltshire
<debian@jwiltshire.org.uk> wrote:

> Where the changelog is already part of the source package and has a
> sensible name, and the package calls dh_installchangelogs, it's already
> installed as /usr/share/doc/*/changelog and the Debian changelog as
> changelog.Debian. The only unpredictable part of that is whether upstream
> enclosed one in the first place.

It is also unpredictable that upstream put a ChangeLog or a NEWS file
(or the change info in README or elsewhere) in the ChangeLog and what
the Debian maintainer did with the situation.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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