Re: changelog vs ChangeLog and policy dictates
On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, [iso-8859-1] Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
>
> > Let's forget the policy. And let's take an average Linux user, using the
> > standard command shell (me using bash =)). This user uses the tab key to
> > travel through the filesystem and reach the farthest (?) files. This user
> > (who seems to like talking in 3rd peron about himself) has a little happier
> > life if he can get a list just by double tabbing at "/usr.../changelog",
> > instead of having to get out to the cold big world of "cd" and "ls".
> >
> > I think the real the question is "Why would we need to keep the upstream
> > name?"
> >
> Because the user who expects to find the change log for this package and
> has always, in the past, found it in the file ChangeLog, will try to use
> the tab completion feature that you use above and fail when they look for
> the "usual" filename.
Then what about the Debian user who expects to find a
/usr/package/changelog.gz in any package he installs? The Debian Policy is
about consistency between Debian packages, not about consistency between
Debian and upstream sources. If there is to be consistency between
packages, every package has to have a /usr/package/changelog.gz (and a
/usr/package/changelog.Debian.gz, for that matter), just like it has to
have a /usr/package/copyright. I don't care if changelog.gz is a symlink
or not, it just has to be there so that I can do 'less changelog.gz' and
view the changelog (all this IMHO, of course).
Just the view of a user who always thought Debian was the best
distribution because it is so consistent,
Remco
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