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Re: Packing and installing Debian changelog "by hand"



On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:05:33 +0500,
Andrey Rahmatullin<wrar@debian.org> wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 03:30:05PM +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
>> I have a package which got a menu item to show the upstream
>> changelog - So I want to avoid compressing this, but still compress
>> the Debian changelog.
>> 
>> In my attempts I first use override_dh_compress and add -Xchangelog
>> there, with the results that all changelogs are not compressed.
>> (Since this also catches changelog.Debian)
>> 
>> Fine, then I simply compress my Debian changelog by hand using gzip
>> -9
>> - which I have tried in override_dh_install_changelogs like this:  
>Call dh_compress on changelog.Debian.
>

Thanks -

However - I'm sorry to say it wasn't that simple - I believe I run into
#781131 [1] - I only manage to make all files containing "changelog" to be
compressed, or none of them.

-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailinglists@gusnan.se
andreas@ronnquist.net

1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781131

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