[debhelper-devel] Bug#779471: dh_installchangelogs: please add CHANGES.md as an upstream changelog

[Jason Pleau]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20150101
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

Several projects that are hosted on Github use markdown files (.md) as their
README and changelogs.

CHANGES.md is used by a few projects, and it would be nice to have this file
automatically picked up as an upstream changelog.

Trivial patch (against 9.20150101) is included to add this file to
dh_installchangelogs



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.19.0-jpleau (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils      2.25-5
ii  dpkg          1.17.24
ii  dpkg-dev      1.17.24
ii  file          1:5.22+15-1
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.17.24
ii  man-db        2.7.0.2-5
ii  perl          5.20.1-5
ii  po-debconf    1.0.16+nmu3

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  1.20140617
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