Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling
On Mon, Jan 02 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> No matter what we do here, we're going to make a bunch of packages buggy,
> because the archive is very divided on current best practice. :(
Buggy in the sense that existing packages wouldn't comply with the new
rules?
I don't see this as "buggyness", but more of a simple transition like
any other. By this metric, the current state is equally buggy. I see the
current mixture of changelog and release logs as proof that maintainers
would like to do the best thing for the users, but get tangled by the
policy.
I had the same dilemma when packaging. I *also* abuse "changelog" to
ship the release notes. It feels doubly weird that I have to override
the default dh_installchangelogs rule to do this.
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