Package: devscripts Version: 2.8.14 Severity: normal Tags: patch Hi,
The NEWS file name should be debian/NEWS and not debian/NEWS.Debian. Quoting from http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-bpp-news-debian: "If you use debhelper, dh_installchangelogs will install debian/NEWS files for you." And quoting the dh_installchangelogs: Parallelling the debian changelog handling, this program also takes care of NEWS.Debian files. If there is a debian/NEWS file, it is installed as usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.Debian. debian/package.NEWS files can also be used. The patch: --- /usr/bin/dch 2005-03-24 16:33:37.000000000 +0200 +++ /usr/bin/dch 2005-04-09 14:47:58.490280744 +0300 @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Specify the name of the changelog to use in place of debian/changelog No directory traversal or checking is performed in this case. --news - Specify that debian/NEWS.Debian is to be edited; cannot be used + Specify that debian/NEWS is to be edited; cannot be used with --changelog --check-dirname-level N How much to check directory names: @@ -229,8 +229,8 @@ if $opt_c and $opt_news; my $changelog_path = $opt_c || $ENV{'CHANGELOG'} || 'debian/changelog'; -if ($opt_news) { $changelog_path = "debian/NEWS.Debian"; } -if ($changelog_path ne 'debian/changelog' and $changelog_path ne 'debian/NEWS.Debian') { +if ($opt_news) { $changelog_path = "debian/NEWS"; } +if ($changelog_path ne 'debian/changelog' and $changelog_path ne 'debian/NEWS') { $check_dirname_level = 0; } -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages devscripts depends on: ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii dpkg-dev 1.10.27 Package building tools for Debian ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii perl 5.8.4-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
