Re: Re: Renaming and gzipping upstream changelog

[Michele Gastaldo <micheluzzo@inventati.org>]

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 03:10:24PM -0400, Scott Howard wrote:
> > In your debian rules file you can use:
> > dh_installchangelogs -k {your_changelog_filename}
> > 
> > (the -k is to keep the upstream changelog file name and symlink it to
> > changelog.gz, feel free to drop it if you wish, it will rename the
> > file changelog.gz)
> > 
> > or, if using dh7 style rules:
> > override_dh_installchangelogs:
> > [tab] dh_installchangelogs -k {your_changelog_filename}
> 
> "If none is specified, it looks for files with names that seem likely to be
> changelogs. (In compatibility level 7 and above.)"
> So explicit dh_installchangelogs doesn't need additional arguments and dh
> tiny rules will do everything automatically (if the file is named
> Changelog or ChangeLog).
> 
> --
> WBR, wRAR

For some reason, it doesn't seem to work like that. I had to specify an 
override for dh_installchangelogs.
Anyways, it's working nice now and I have uploaded the package to 
mentors.debian.net.

Thank you both very much for help!

Michele Gastaldo