Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:48:30AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > 
> > Yes, it is.  Which NEWS.Debian are you looked at?  That should be
> > /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz
> 
> Sorry, that was poorly worded. apt-listchanges is not displaying the
> relevant items in NEWS.Debian.  The file itself is there.

I'm afraid I don't know apt-listchanges.  But if you can confirm that changing
the formatting to start with "  *" solves the problem, I'll just do that.

> > > I think all packages with the
> > > same source need the sames Debian NEWS and changes files.  One package
> > > maintainer, however, has told me that's not his experience.
> > 
> > AFAICS, the Exim packages currently use a separate NEWS file for each package.
> > debhelper seems to support that (analogous to *.install, *.docs, etc).
> 
> I think the question is whether apt-listchanges supports it.
> apt-listchanges tries to avoid displaying a NEWS or changes item more
> than once, and it appears to me it does so by tracking a high-water
> mark based on the source package.  Even if it doesn't, it doesn't seem
> to cope with different binary packages having different NEWS when they
> share the same source.
> 
> I believe that all binary packages from the same source have the same
> changelog.Debian (that's the case for exim, as far as I  can tell),
> and that apt-listchanges expects the NEWS.Debian to be common too.
> This is a bit awkward when the NEWS is relevant only to one binary
> package.

So what you're proposing is to merge all the NEWS files?  Then please take this
up with Marc, he's the one in charge for such things.

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