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Re: original package changelogs



On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:

> There's an open Policy bug about this, which is where it should probably
> be discussed.  When packaging other people's software, I install the
> upstream ChangeLog as changelog.gz and NEWS as NEWS.gz.

For some packages where upstream ignores the NEWS vs ChangeLog thing
I've taken to renaming their ChangeLog or CHANGES.TXT or whatever to a
NEWS file and shipping under the name NEWS.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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