On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Jerome BENOIT <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello List: > > I am working on the bibtool package. > The changelog of the upstream package is in XML format and is named > `Changes.xml'. > > Right now, I manage it by adding an override in the debian/rules file: > > override_dh_installchangelogs: > dh_installchangelogs --keep Changes.xml > > Nevertheless, nothing is really done, in particular `Changes.xml' is not > converted in text. > I put the `--keep' option because I suspect that this kind of changelog file > is a well know > format in some `field' (even if I can not figure out which `field').
Hmm. According to policy (section 12.7 of version 3.9.2.0): ,---- | If an upstream changelog is available, it should be accessible as | `/usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.gz' in plain text. If the | upstream changelog is distributed in HTML, it should be made available | in that form as `/usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz' and a | plain text `changelog.gz' should be generated from it using, for | example, `lynx -dump -nolist'. If the upstream changelog files do not | already conform to this naming convention, then this may be achieved | either by renaming the files, or by adding a symbolic link, at the | maintainer's discretion.[1] `---- This would seem to imply that you shouldn't be installing a file named "changelog.gz" containing anything other than (gzipped) plain text. I think that, if you install it, you should probably install it as "Changes.xml.gz". > Is there a better way to deal with this `Changes.xml' ? > I guess that I can add some stuff in the makefile to convert it in text > format: > do specific tools exist to convert this kind of changelog in text format ? If I were you, I'd ask upstream about that, or (since a quick google shows that this is a TeX-related program) ask about it on <http://tex.stackexchange.com> (a Q&A site about TeX with loads of extremely helpful people on it). Then, I'd pass the (html or plaintext) output of any such tool to dh_installchangelogs, rather than passing Changes.xml. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAJYzjmfy3zbzgoZNGrcGzovvSrEJjXZxj=zwocrqt+spaoh...@mail.gmail.com
