On 2026-02-24 12:37:42 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > tl;dr, esp. for debhelper maintainers: > > dh_installchangelogs should apply the same date/release-based > filtering algorithm to debian/NEWS aka NEWS.Debian that it does to > debian/changelog. > > Otherwise very old NEWS entries can appear in the .debs, even for > versions that the changelog doesn't mention. This is largely > harmless, but does cause a (correct) warning from lintian.
Well, for users, it is annoying and confusing as apt-listchanges lists such old NEWS files. This happened at least for libx11-6: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1128905 > If the resulting NEWS.Debian file is empty, it should probably be > omitted completely. I'm wondering what apt-listchanges would do if an empty NEWS.Debian file appears in a package. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
