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Bug#65764: changelog shouldn't be in the copyright file



Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> wrote

> I agree that the summary should not be part of the changelog, but it
> never made sense to me that it was in the copyright file, either. The
> obvious place to me would be README.Debian.

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, the README.Debian file is best 
reserved for changes in the *behavior* of the package, not in the changes 
to the source tree.

> One of the problems with putting it in the copyright file is that for
> packages that don't use one of the common licenses, you have to modify
> the upstream copyright file, which feels like a bad thing to me.

Huh?  I don't understand this.

- Brian





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