Re: Question about splitting a source package with an epoch

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>]

El 15/5/25 a las 0:39, Soren Stoutner escribió:
> 2.  When moving the binary package to a new source package, should the old
> changelog be preserved?  It seems even weirder to me to have a one-line
> changelog that says “Initial release” that already contains an epoch.

I think it depends on whether or not you consider the new source to be
a successor of the old one.

For example, the hello package which did not use debhelper at first was "forked"
to hello-debhelper. Because it was a "fork", it retained the old changelog.

Later, it became clear that hello-debhelper should be the one having
the name "hello", so the source was renamed back to "hello", also keeping the
changelog.

Thanks.