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. -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
