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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