Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, gregor herrmann wrote: > From the Perl world, looking at roughly ~3400 packages I have locally > cloned: > > 28 have a NEWS file (most of them with a Gnome/GTK background), 1 > News, 1 news. > > 3368 have a Changes, CHANGES, Changelog, ChangeLog, (and some other > variations like

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:10:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >>> Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-11-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Simon, On Wed, Nov 29 2017, Simon McVittie wrote: > How about something like this? > [...] Thank you for taking the time to write up patch text for this bug. FWIW I would second it, however: I think that debhelper's behaviour needs to be sorted out before we can change what Policy says.

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-11-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 11:34:21 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Most of my Debian and Ubuntu work involves GNOME packaging. For the > > most part, GNOME components ships NEWS files which are much more > > interesting for users or developers to read for highlights of what > > changed when. > This is

Bug#683495: Mandating use of /usr/bin/perl in Policy

2017-11-29 Thread Bill Allombert
On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 09:10:12PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Sean Whitton dijo [Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:49:59AM -0700]: > > > I am seeking seconds for the following patch to close this bug, which I > > > think is uncontroversial

Bug#459427: changelog vs. NEWS handling

2017-11-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 at 23:01:08 -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > As others have said, running 'git log' is far more useful than a > complete changelog and in my experience, most projects these days > outside of GNU don't bother shipping changelogs. Many of those projects that do ship a ChangeLog