Re: Fwd: Bug#781847: RFS: python-tappy/1.3-1 [ITP] -- Test Anything Protocol (TAP) tools for Python

[Nicolas CANIART <nicolas@caniart.net>]

Hi,

All right then. a new version with the upstream changelog has been
uploaded to Debian Mentors [1].

Thanks Ben for the makefile snippet.

[1] http://mentors.debian.net/package/tap.py

2015-04-06 2:17 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>:
> Nicolas CANIART <nicolas@caniart.net> writes:
>
>> Upstream ships its changelog as a reStructuredText file which is also
>> included in the documentation. Should I put a copy of it in the binary
>> packages anyway ?
>
> Yes, the convention that the changelog will be installed as a plain-text
> file named ‘/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME/changelog.gz’ is part of Policy
> §12.7.
>
> For an upstream changelog distributed as reStructuredText, this is easy
> enough to satisfy:
>
>     #! /usr/bin/make -f
>     # debian/rules
>
>     # …
>
>     override_dh_installchangelogs:
>             dh_installchangelogs CHANGES.txt
>
>>   (It would mean that up to 4 copies of it can get installed on a
>>   system !)
>
> One of which is in the location and format Policy expects it to be.
>
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> Ben Finney
>
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