Bug#383708: NEWS.Debian per source or binary package? (was: Bug#383708: exim4-config: SPF-related documentation issues)

[Andreas Barth]

* Matt Zimmerman (mdz at debian.org) [060820 12:12]:
> 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.

Hm. Though I remember about NEWS.Debian being formated like changelog, I
cannot remember that NEWS.Debian is per source package. Even more, if
usage of debconf notices for announcements is being considered as
debconf abuse, it must be possible to do that via apt-listchanges.

There can be multiple cases when some information for one binary package
is important, but for another is useless. People reading NEWS.Debian
(and people read that usually from installed binary packages) should
only get information useful for them. Changelog is however read often in
changes-files, and also in the source file, so having only one is right.


Cheers,
Andi
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