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Re: Bug#1055951: RFS: multispeech/4.6.0-1 [ITP] -- Multilingual speech server for Emacspeak



Soren Stoutner, le ven. 29 déc. 2023 15:04:05 -0700, a ecrit:
> The upstream history is shipped as /usr/share/doc/<package name>/changelog. 

I'm not talking about the upstream history, but the history of the
Debian packaging, before it gets into Debian.

Samuel

> The debian/changelog is only a history of the Debian packaging, shipped as /usr
> /share/doc/<package name>/changelog.Debian.gz, so the initial Debian release
> always has only one entry.
> 
> 
> There is some further information about how this works in dh_installchangelogs
> (1).
> 
> 
> If the upstream changelog does not have a common name, you can specify it in
> debian/rules.  You can see an example of how this is done in the Electrum
> package:
> 
> 
> [1]https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/e/electrum/rules-4.4.6dfsg2-1
> 
> 
> On Friday, December 29, 2023 12:59:18 PM MST Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> 
> >
> 
> > Tobias Frost, le mar. 26 déc. 2023 09:44:09 +0100, a ecrit:
> 
> > > I'm puzzled… The changelog is still having multiple entries.
> 
> > > Did the upload fail? Timestamp of the dsc I've checked:  2023-12-19 23:40
> 
> > >
> 
> > > You changelog file must be -- as this is the initial upload to Debian
> 
> > > exactly this:
> 
> > >
> 
> > > multispeech (4.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
> > >
> 
> > >   * Initial release. (Closes: #1055902)
> 
> > > 
> 
> > >  -- Igor B. Poretsky <poretsky@mlbox.ru>  Sun, 10 Dec 2023 16:01:03 +0300
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Thats it. The file ends here.
> 
> >
> 
> > Is this really a strict requirement? When a package has had a life
> 
> > before entering Debian, it can be useful to keep the history of the
> 
> > packaging.
> 
> >
> 
> > Samuel
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Soren Stoutner
> 
> soren@stoutner.com
> 
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/e/electrum/rules-4.4.6dfsg2-1



-- 
Samuel
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