Hello, On Wed 25 Jul 2018 at 07:01PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I share gregor's discomfort: I don't think we've thought this through. I too want Policy to be as correct as possible, but this bug has been open for ten years and one thing upon which there is certainly consensus is that the current text is not satisfactory. We should not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, at least in this case. > Can you summarize the goals for me? 1. Stop encouraging the installation of changelogs, which sometimes has the effect of causing our package maintainers to request such logs from upstream. This is not a good use of anyone's time. 2. Explicitly encourage installing release notes and have a sensible filename for them. > 4. Some licenses require distributing source-level changelogs. Could you give me an example of such a license, please? > ii. We don't impose any requirement on filename other than that they > go in /usr/share/doc/<package>/. I disagree. It is useful to be able to just type `zless /usr/share/doc/foo/known-filename` rather than having to look at the filenames and guess what they are. > iii. We come up with what format requirements we want to impose on > the changelogs, if any. This is far out of scope for this bug. -- Sean Whitton
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