Package: debhelper Version: 9.20150101 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I had the case of one upstream package shipping a useless ChangeLog file (basically having "check Github" as content). dh_installchangelogs installs this file automatically, unless I manually intervene. The only way to do so seems to be to add additional targets to debian/rules. My original idea of just shipping an empty debian/<package>.changelog file did not work, debhelper aborted with an error. So I'm filing this wishlist bug for consideration of empty support files to imply no-ops rather than errors. I think that would be an elegant design, but I am not sure whether this is in line with dh in general. Michael -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.25-5 ii dpkg 1.17.25 ii dpkg-dev 1.17.25 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.25 ii man-db 2.7.0.2-5 ii perl 5.20.2-3+deb8u1 ii po-debconf 1.0.16+nmu3 debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: pn dh-make <none> -- no debconf information
