[Logcheck-devel] Logcheck /Sarge Status

[maks attems]

On Mon, 05 Jul 2004, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:

> * Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org> [2004-07-04 04:35]:
> > Bugs I'd like to get fixed before sarge:
> > #255932: logcheck: News file is not displayed on upgrade
> 
>  Args.  About those I prepared a mail offline but sent it to a wrong
> address.  :-/
> 
>  So I'm going to resend it in here:
> 
> * Gerfried Fuchs <alfie at ist.org> [2004-06-25 12:30]:
> >  Yes, you are right. I am going to commit the changes to CVS and the fix
> > will be included in the next upload hopefully.
> 
>  I shot a little too fast there... I have two concerns regarding that
> file:
> 
>  a.) NEWS.Debian should live inside the debian/ subdirectory. This was
> the first thing I wanted to change, but then:
> 
>  b.) The contents of the file doesn't seem Debian specific. So I rather
> think it should be renamed to NEWS and put there as "upstream"
> changelog? I am not sure thought that apt-listchanges does pick that up.
> That has to be checked, I hope though that apt-listchanges does this,
> because it also displayes changelog.gz for native packages, so it should
> be able to display NEWS.gz too. If it doesn't I would regard this as a
> bug in apt-listchanges and report it. Can someone test that, please?

tried to test, but the format of the file doesn't help.
so i'm in favour of a rename. maybe you want to move also
the file into dir docs?

a++ maks