On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:50:52AM +0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: > I'm currently packaging a Mah-Jong game (see ITP #123146), but I have a > problem since upstream has several changelogs... > > The first one is in a file called CHANGES, and contains stuff like that: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1.2.3 2001-09-06 > Bugfix. > Gui: fix stupid bug introduced in last release causing > crash after about five hands.
This file would be more accurately named NEWS. > 1.2.2 2001-09-04 > Feature enhancements. > Graphical client: add Tileset and Tileset search path options. > Allow display option changes to take immediate effect. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The second one is in a file called ChangeLog, and contains stuff like > that: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 2001-09-06 Julian Bradfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And this is correctly called ChangeLog. Check the GNU standards for some useful guidelines regarding these files. > The debian package should contain the upstream changelog, but I don't > know which one to use. You should include both. > What I currently did is set the CHANGES file as changelog, and include > ChangeLog without changing its name. Hence, I have to changelog files > (with different capitalization); this might not be good. > > Could someone please give me some advice ? I would recommend getting upstream to rename CHANGES to NEWS, and use ChangeLog as the upstream changelog. -- - mdz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
