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Bug#580135: [debian-policy] 12.7 Changelog files shouldn't advise the use of lynx



Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.4.0
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Hi,

In order to include upstream changelog distributed in HTML, and convert
it as a plain text changelog.gz, policy should advise the use of
html2txt (which debhelper already depends on) rather than lynx that has
fewer chance to already be on Build-Depends:.

Cheers

David


--- policy.sgml.cur	2010-05-03 15:36:32.000000000 -0400
+++ policy.sgml	2010-05-03 15:45:49.000000000 -0400
@@ -9216,7 +9216,7 @@
 	  HTML, it should be made available in that form as
 	  <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var>/changelog.html.gz</file>
 	  and a plain text <file>changelog.gz</file> should be generated
-	  from it using, for example, <tt>lynx -dump -nolist</tt>.  If
+	  from it using, for example, <tt>html2text</tt>.  If
 	  the upstream changelog files do not already conform to this
 	  naming convention, then this may be achieved either by
 	  renaming the files, or by adding a symbolic link, at the

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