Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:29:50AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/1/17 11:19, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > Is there some reason why exacdt standardisation of the filenames is
> > necessary here ? For most of the uses I can think of, it is OK to
> > look in a handful of files to see which one might answer the question.
>
> I wrote the bug originally.
>
> My goal was simply to get more packages to ship release notes (NEWS),
> and optionally, to get fewer packages to ship useless source-level
> changelogs.
>
> A policy adjustment can help that a bit because that also influences
> things like debhelper and a lot of packages just use that without much
> further thought.
The issue is that dh_installchangelogs cannot easily detect if a
changelog is a VCS changelog and whether a NEWS is actually a changelog.
The only reasonable thing dh_installchangelogs can do is to install
everything that looks like a changelog or a NEWS file.
However, I am concerned that having dh_installchangelogs removing files will
lead to less predictability.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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