Hi, All right then. a new version with the upstream changelog has been uploaded to Debian Mentors [1].
Thanks Ben for the makefile snippet. [1] http://mentors.debian.net/package/tap.py 2015-04-06 2:17 GMT+02:00 Ben Finney <[email protected]>: > Nicolas CANIART <[email protected]> writes: > >> Upstream ships its changelog as a reStructuredText file which is also >> included in the documentation. Should I put a copy of it in the binary >> packages anyway ? > > Yes, the convention that the changelog will be installed as a plain-text > file named ‘/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGENAME/changelog.gz’ is part of Policy > §12.7. > > For an upstream changelog distributed as reStructuredText, this is easy > enough to satisfy: > > #! /usr/bin/make -f > # debian/rules > > # … > > override_dh_installchangelogs: > dh_installchangelogs CHANGES.txt > >> (It would mean that up to 4 copies of it can get installed on a >> system !) > > One of which is in the location and format Policy expects it to be. > > -- > \ “I think Western civilization is more enlightened precisely | > `\ because we have learned how to ignore our religious leaders.” | > _o__) —Bill Maher, 2003 | > Ben Finney > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOWzrLB_Jn0M5U[email protected]
