Bug#681295: packages.debian.org: should try to extract changelog and copyright from package metadata

[Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
Usertags: changelog

We want to move the changelog and copyright files from
/usr/share/doc/<pkg>/ to the package's metadata (i.e. within control.tar
in the .deb file). You should thus try to look for the changelog and
copyright files there before falling back to the current location.

Since you want to extract both files, the best interface is probably
to use "dpkg-deb -e <file>" and get the "changelog" and "copyright" file
from the DEBIAN sub-directory.

See #681289 for the corresponding policy bug.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.4-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash