Jonathan Wiltshire <deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk> writes: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:50:30AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>> Rather, it would be good to have a facility similar to the way the >> Debian changelog is currently available: have the upstream changelog >> published in a predictable location by package name. > Where the changelog is already part of the source package and has a > sensible name, and the package calls dh_installchangelogs, it's already > installed as /usr/share/doc/*/changelog and the Debian changelog as > changelog.Debian. The only unpredictable part of that is whether > upstream enclosed one in the first place. In order for apt-listchanges to do its nice summary, though, you need two features: a consistent location *and* a consistent format, so that you can show only the changes from the currently installed version. The second part is rather hard for arbitrary upstream changelogs. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
