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

[Matt Zimmerman]

severity 383803 wishlist
thanks

On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 11:26:30PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 09:38:45PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > I'm afraid I don't know apt-listchanges.
> 
> Buggy as a june meadow and suboptimally maintained. Things can change
> soon, as apt-listchanges has just gotten a new maintainer.

Lack of support for this setup isn't a bug; NEWS.Debian has always been
loosely defined as being just like the Debian changelog but with a different
category of information.  The Debian changelog has always corresponded to
source packages, not binary packages, and so apt-listchanges has always
treated it that way, and treats NEWS.Debian the same.

> >   But if you can confirm that changing the formatting to start with "
> >   *" solves the problem, I'll just do that.
> 
> Don't! NEWS.Debian is just as it is supposed to be.
> 
> The itemization is only meant for changelogs, NEWS.Debian is a text
> format.
> 
> I have reported a bug against apt-listchanges reporting this, see
> #383803.

NEWS.Debian is defined as having the same format as a Debian changelog,
and the format for changelog is defined in the policy manual.
apt-listchanges honors that specification, and doesn't care about the
conventional itemization, though you are required by policy to start each
line with whitespace.  This issue has nothing to do with the format of the
file from what I see.

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 - mdz