Re: Bug#276953: Bug#276822: Bug#276953: debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:18:07 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> said:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:39:39PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> What's there to clarify? If I install foo-x.y.z, I expect to find
>> the changelog for foo version x.y.z in the /usr/share/doc/foo
>> directory. How the maintainer arranges for it to be present is left
>> up to the maintainer.
>>
>> If the package does not show me the changelog for foo x.y.z, then
>> the package is violating a must directive in policy.
> If so, then #161325 is not a bug in apt-listchanges, and there are
> several violations of this type in Debian.
File bugs, please. 12.7 is pretty unambiguous about the
content of /usr/share/doc/foo/changelog.Debian.gz
manoj
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