Re: changelog vs ChangeLog and policy dictates
Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> writes:
> apharris@burrito.onshore.com (Adam P. Harris) writes:
> > File renaming is up to the package maintainer. Give us our freedom to
> > make out operating environment better than anyone's!
>
> I'm not trying to remove freedom. However consider it from the perspective
> of an upstream author: they may not wish to see their docs hacked and
> made inconsistent when they may have arranged them so carefully. Arguably,
> no one knows a program quite like its author, and if they get silly
> questions from users caused by unclear docs, they could get easily annoyed
> with what a maintainer has done.
>
> It might even provide a justification for distribution policies like that
> used by Daniel J. Bernstein, author of qmail.
By your own admission, this is based on the preferences of the
upstream maintainer, and who better to judge those preferences but the
sensitive and caring Debian package maintainer? Therefore, it *still*
should not be in official Policy.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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