Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, 2008-01-06, 14:55:
> I think that installing a source-level change list is hardly ever 
> useful for a binary package.

It's normally more useful that no changelog at all. :-)

What I tend to do in my packages is:

if user-level change list exists:
	install it as /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog
elsif source-level changelog exists:
	install it as /usr/share/doc/PACKAGE/changelog
else:
	curl into a ball and cry


This sounds a bit like:

> 2. Modify policy to say that source-level changelogs should not be 
> installed unless there is some overriding reason. Also say that 
> user-level release notes should be installed as 
> /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz. This has the advantage that the 
> currently used name "changelog" is preserved, but the disadvantage 
> would be that it would take on a new meaning for many packages. It 
> would also create an inconsistent naming scheme compared to the 
> handling of changelog.Debian vs. NEWS.Debian.

--
Jakub Wilk