On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:35:48AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > control: tag -1 +patch > > - I have chosen to include the recommendation not to install both the > changelog and the release notes if both are available. I've done this > using the term 'recommended', which is the weakest requirement Policy > can impose; maintainer discretion is allowed. We do seem to have > something of a consensus on this, and maintainers who do disagree can > ignore the recommendation. > > The argument for including the recommendation is that a changelog is > not very useful in a binary package, except as a fallback when no > release notes are available. If you're going to dig into an upstream > changelog you will do so alongside a copy of the upstream source. So > distributing the upstream changelog in only the source package, and > not the binary package(s), makes most sense.
I have to disagree with that recommendation. It all depends on how the changelog is worded. Since we do not include a definition of changelog and NEWS file, we cannot assume that one of them is useless without the source code. For example pari-gp include both changelog.gz and NEW.gz and both are potentially useful to users without a copy of the source. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
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