Bug#681289: debian-policy: Changelog and copyright should be package metadata

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 23:29:48 +0200, Carsten Hey wrote:
> * Raphael Hertzog [2012-07-13 09:00 +0200]:
> > Guillem introduced the --control-list and --control-show interfaces …
> >
> > If … , we should IMO create a new package that will hook into dpkg
> > --post-invoke and …
> >
> > … should create dpkg --changelog and dpkg --copyright …
> 
> [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision][,build_number] instead of
> [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision] would also solve the
> multi-arch issue that seems to be the main motivation for all this
> indirection.

You might need to exand on that, because I don't see how that would
help at all?

Also although my initial motivation was to solve the binNMU+multiarch
case, I consider it now it's a worthwhile change by itself, regardless
of how the binNMU+multiarch problem ends up being solved.

regards,
guillem