Bug#331487: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#331487: Please ship upstream changelog, as well.

Christian Perrier bubulle at debian.org
Thu Oct 13 16:04:48 UTC 2005


Quoting Piotr Engelking (inkerman42 at gmail.com):
> On 12/10/05, Alexander Gattin <xrgtn at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 09:39:59AM +0200, Piotr Engelking wrote:
> > > Please also include upstream changelog (this is, actually, a policy
> >
> > Please, specify which chapter of debian policy are you
> > referring to.
> >
> > > requirement).
> >
> > BTW, this is _not_ _required_.
> 
> I was referring to chapter 12.7 of the Debian Policy Manual: "If an
> upstream changelog is available, it should be accessible as
> /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz in plain text."


Well, we can certainly play words for a long time..:-). Alexander was
right as this is a "should"....but Piotr was right as he did not set
the bug severity as RC (which should have been OK if we have a
"must").

So, anyway, the next release will embark upstream's changelog and
thanks again, Piotr, for reporting this.






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