Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, I have noticed there are still modules that don’t ship a changelog in their tarballs, and their number has been growing ever since the migration to git. There should be no need to remind you that the GPL mandates a changelog or something similar to be present in all source distributions. It

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Sandy Armstrong
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com wrote: *if*, on the other hand, you want a ChangeLog because it makes your life as a packager easier (for some unknown reason) then you should probably ask for a Gnome Goal to add the autogeneration of the ChangeLog from the Git

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the original authors of the program itself; in this case, the Debian developer applying distribution

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Johannes Schmid
Hi! Anyway, as you said, I think it would be good to add autotools stuff for this, and have all modules ship with their git changelog, since it can be useful to distributors and users. Why is it useful? It's duplication of information (in a strange format) that is available through git and

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 12:58 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the original authors of the program

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : if you're referring to the 2.a clause in the GPLv2, i.e.: [snip] then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people redistributing the program under the terms of the license, not the original authors of the program

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Dodji Seketeli
Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com a écrit: *if*, on the other hand, you want a ChangeLog because it makes your life as a packager easier (for some unknown reason) then you should probably ask for a Gnome Goal to add the autogeneration of the ChangeLog from the Git commit log to every GNOME

Re: Please ship changelogs in your tarballs

2010-10-03 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 13:33 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le dimanche 03 octobre 2010 à 10:48 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : if you're referring to the 2.a clause in the GPLv2, i.e.: [snip] then the section is referring to the licensee, i.e. people redistributing the program under the