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Re: PROPOSAL: changelog.html.gz sanitization



Hi,
>>"Joey" == Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:

 >> >   If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it must be

        must?

 >> >   accessible as `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz'. A plain
 >> >   text version of the changelog must be accessible as
 >> >   `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz' (this can be created by
 >> >   `lynx -dump -nolist').


        Why are both mandated? Why can't we just have
 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz, however it was created? I havr no
 objections if the html stuff is there too, but what is the rationale
 for haing both the text and the html *mandated* by policy?

        manoj

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