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Re: Packing and installing Debian changelog "by hand"



Hello,

Am 27.07.19 um 18:50 schrieb Andreas Ronnquist:
> 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.

Only a view through the crystal ball:

You want to hold the upstream changelog uncompressed?

then I guess you should overwrite installdocs instead of installchangelog.

> 
> -- Andreas Rönnquist
> mailinglists@gusnan.se
> andreas@ronnquist.net
> 
> 1: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781131
> 

Kind regards
-- 
Mechtilde Stehmann
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