On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 18:23 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > > All'incirca Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:23:54 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sembrerebbe aver scritto: > > > >> You just need to make the package accomplish the Debian policy, that's > >> all you need to do. > > > > Thank you, but I'm still not confident about how to deal with > > debian/copyright and debian/changelog. Should I delete them and rewrite > > like as I were making a new package, or should I just modify them > > (adding a new entry in changelog and a new paragraph in copyright > > describing that the package was ported to Debian by me)? > > You need a new changelog for Debian starting from scratch and you could > adapt the copyright (if the license allow it) or just make one new.
I'm not so sure. Some people would request a new changelog, but it's not a hard and fast rule as far as I know. If the packaging work is going to follow Ubuntu closely then a shared changelog could be useful. As for debian/copyright make any changes that you need, but if you are using the Ubuntu packaging then do not remove their copyright notice and licensing. Also if it has the note at the top saying who added the packaging and when it would be polite to leave that present and just add a note saying who modified it for Debian if you like. Obviously if the packaging is completely new then you can ignore all this, but I don't think we would have this thread if that was the case. Thanks, James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
