On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 20:36:46 +0200, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno mar, 14/06/2011 alle 14.09 -0400, Gaetan Nadon ha scritto: > > > My conclusion is that I am ok with the installation of the README > > (distros are doing it), but I would need more convincing for ChangeLog > > as I have not seen any on Debian. I am under the impression that > > distros totally rearrange packaging so it may not be helpful to do it. > > That depends really on distro to distro, Daniel implies that the > ChangeLog is renamed changelog before compressing, and I don't know how > Debian handles that, whether it is automatic or would be more work to > install the file as is. > Most debian packages run dh_installchangelogs as part of the package build process, which handles this: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dh_installchangelogs
I'm not convinced the git log is all that useful as part of the package though, it's often massive and not very informative (>1M compressed for the server, e.g.). Cheers, Julien _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
