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Re: Call for Seconds, Take II



On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 02:20:08AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  Karl> Also, "ChangeLog" files are named with capital `C' and `L'
>  Karl> when you use `C-x 4 a' with `add-log' in the emacsen.  I
>  Karl> think we should permit that spelling, which is very standard
>  Karl> and more common than all lowercase, rather than symlinking
>  Karl> or renaming.  I like it capitalized since that makes it sort
>  Karl> near the top of a directory listing in `dired' (or any other
>  Karl> file manager).
> 
>  Manoj> Are you proposing this as an amendment to the
>  Manoj> proposal?
> 
>  Karl>  Sure.  Will anyone second?
> 
> 	Actually, I think I object to this amendment as it stands,
>  after reflection. Under the current policy, I always know where the
>  changelog is, upstream, or Debian. This new blurring of the name by
>  allowing mixde case makes for more confusion. I say that the name
>  should be allowed, as long as there exists a symlink so that people
>  looking for the debian's default location shall not be dissapointed.
> 
> 	A symlink is not that hard to create in the rules file. And
>  compatibility and consistency requirements are enough to
>  justify the loss of an inode.

I'm not sure this is such a big issue.

Or at least, I think it's reasonable in the upstream changelog to be as
above, but I think Debian's should remain changelog.Debian for consistancy's
sake.

Is this perhaps more reasonable?

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