On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 11:03:05PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > > I think
> > > the most valuable starting point would to be to standardize on
> > > /usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.gz for the human-readable summary and
> > > explicitly say to never install that as
> > > /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz.
>
> On the contents of the proposal I agree with Gregor that I do not
> consider it a good idea to install a different file to changelog.gz
> than has been in Debian for the past quarter century.
>
> That's my personal opinion on the contents, others might differ on that.
>
> Regarding the process, something like that should be decided before
> installation of the human-readable summary is done by default by
> debhelper.
>
> A complete mess would be something like:
> - dh compat >= 12 installs NEWS to /usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.gz
> - dh compat >= 13 no longer installs ChangeLog to
> /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz
> - dh compat >= 14 installs NEWS to /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz
>...
Sorry, I messed up and the quoted suggestion above is actually
a different suggestion, where the mess would be like
- dh compat >= 12 installs NEWS to /usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.gz
- dh compat >= 13 no longer installs ChangeLog to
/usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz
- dh compat >= 13 or when policy changes, some packages install a
ChangeLog that was previously in /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz
as /usr/share/doc/package/NEWS.gz
cu
Adrian
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