Hello gregor, On Mon 23 Jul 2018 at 01:40PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > Let me see if I got this right, and apply it to the typical pkg-perl > package: > > CPAN distributions usually contain no NEWS file, and do contain a > Changes/ChangeLog/... file which is "an upstream release notes file" > per the above definition (hand-written by the upstream maintainer, > targetted at end users). (Numbers in message #65 in this bug report.) > > Currently we (i.e. typically dh_installchangelogs) install this > Changes file as /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz. In the future > we'd need to install it as /usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.gz; or still > as changelog.gz if we can live with the deprecation (will this be > allowed "forever"?). Until we can remove the deprecation without making more than a handful of packages buggy. So, probably not for a long time. > Did I get this right so far? Yes. > As written in message #140 in December, I still think we have two > questions: which kind of files to install, and under which names. > I think there's consensus for the first one, and this is expressed > well in this patch. As for the second one, I have to admit that (if > I'm reading the patch correctly) I'm still not happy of this forced > rename of (CPAN) ChangeLogs to (GNU) NEWS.gz ... Well, it is more like (CPAN) ChangeLogs to (Debian) NEWS.gz :) I don't think it's right to view this as a forced rename, because of the deprecation. At least with this patch, there is no time limit. We're just stating that the newer practice is better. -- Sean Whitton
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