Branden Robinson wrote: > Er, uhh, I don't like that because I think that, in general, HTML documents > should be identifiable as such by their filename. Ideally, they should > have the ".html" suffix.
I was going to disagree with this on the ground html is easy to read, until I read mozilla's changelog. <yuck/> > How about mandating a non-HTML changelog.gz generated with lynx -dump > -nolist | gzip? I have no problem with this. However, I don't think we should mandate the conversion tool. Any form of conversion to plain text should be acceptable. The lynx command line can be a suggested way to do it. > I guess I am proposing this as an amendment. Ok, I accept the amendment into my proposal. The new proposed text: If the upstream changelog file is HTML formatted, it must be accessible as `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz'. A plain text version of the changelog must be accessible as `/usr/doc/<package>/changelog.gz' (this can be created by `lynx -dump -nolist'). -- see shy jo
