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Re: PROPOSAL: changelog.html.gz sanitization



On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 02:09:36PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I think Manoj has a point. How about:
> 
>    If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it may be
>    made available 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').
> 
> Can I get some seconds (or comments) on this alteration to the proposal?

I think the html changelog SHOULD be there since that is its native form.
lynx can be guaranteed to make a mess of anything more complex than a
simple HTML file and as a result the original HTML should be provided in
those cases.  Since it's hard to deal with ifs like that in the policy,
and since it doesn't hurt a lot, I would say it'd be good to have both.

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