Bug#681295: marked as done (packages.debian.org: should try to extract changelog and copyright from package metadata)
Your message dated Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:13:11 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#681295: packages.debian.org: should try to extract changelog and copyright from package metadata
has caused the Debian Bug report #681295,
regarding packages.debian.org: should try to extract changelog and copyright from package metadata
to be marked as done.
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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
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Hi,
* Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> [2012-07-12 09:33:26 CEST]:
> 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.
I think this should be discussed on -devel before, it destroys user
expectations.
Said that, the packages website won't be extracting this information
anymore in the long run, ftpmasters provide us with the extracted files
already and we are going to use those instead. Thus, closing this bug.
Enjoy,
Rhonda
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