Bug#982626: autoconf: Ships identical NEWS and NEWS.Debian files
Control: tags -1 + patch
On 2021-02-12 17:35 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Package: autoconf
> Version: 2.69-14
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi!
>
> This package ships identical NEWS and NEWS.Debian file. This means no
> upstream NEWS file is shipped, where all new features are described
> in a concise way.
The simple attached patch works for me, fixing the problem where
dh_installdocs would install the upstream NEWS file as intended, only to
overwrite it with the one from the debian/ directory two lines later.
Cheers,
Sven
diff -Nru autoconf-2.71/debian/autoconf.docs autoconf-2.71/debian/autoconf.docs
--- autoconf-2.71/debian/autoconf.docs 2020-12-20 11:16:50.000000000 +0100
+++ autoconf-2.71/debian/autoconf.docs 2021-08-28 23:01:10.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
NEWS
README
-debian/NEWS
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