Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist Policy currently says that:
If the upstream changelog file is text formatted, it must be accessible as `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz'. If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it must be accessible as `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz'. This went in back in October, but so far a grand total of 2 packages (pstoedit, xterm) comply with it. A lot more could of course. (Frankly, part of the problem is that debhelper wasn't supporting it properly, this is now fixed). But my big problem with this is that it means that as more and more packages comply, people will start having to look in two places for upstream changelogs. It's very useful to be able to look in only one place, for pusposes of automation and for plain old lazyness. Therefore I'd like to suggest a modification: If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it must be accessible as `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz' with `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz' being a symbolic link to it. -- see shy jo
