On debian-policy, Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote: > My rationale for mandating a changelog.gz is for consitency, so you can > easily find the changelog in every package. > > I don't have a rationale for requiring a html changelog, because that is > already in policy. It went in last fall, I believe. > > 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? Interesting, consider it seconded. -- I consume, therefore I am
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