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. > > > 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.
My impression, which I think I got from an earlier apt-listchanges maintainer, is that NEWS.Debian is supposed to have individual entries in the same format as changelog.Debian. Whether that implies "*" I'm not sure; whether this is just a little secret or part of policy I'm not sure. > > 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. > > > 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. > > That is not going to happen. I don't think it is our job to work > around broken optional tools. Sorry. As a practical matter, if the NEWS.Debian files don't work with apt-listchanges, a lot of people will miss the NEWS. In the short-run, this seems a pretty good argument for working with apt-listchanges as it exists. Also, as a user I expect that all binaries with the same source will have the same NEWS.Debian, so I won't necessarily check the separate NEWS.Debian. If others are like me, it means the NEWS may escape human as well as automatic tools. In the longer-run, apt-listchanges, package maintainers, and policy should all agree on what the deal is (format of NEWS.Debian and relation between packages from the same source). Since #383803 has been set to wishlist severity, it seems the apt-listchanges maintainer does not agree the current behavior is a bug. To repeat, I'm not sure my diagnosis of the problem (apt-listchanges requires all packages with the same source to have the same NEWS.Debian) is correct. There is at least one competing explanation (missing "*") which has the same character, namely is it an exim problem or an apt-listchanges problem? Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
