[Pkg-osm-maint] Bug#666190: josm: JOSM does not have a changelog.gz file which shares the changes happening with new tested snapshots

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: josm
Version: 0.0.svn5047+dfsg1-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
JOSM has only a changelog.Debian.gz which gives just a brief mention
that it got a new tested snapshot. See for instance :-

/usr/share/doc/josm$ zcat changelog.Debian.gz | less

josm (0.0.svn5047+dfsg1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New tested snapshot
  * Fix wrapper script to detect newer versions of OpenJDK
    (Closes: #661942)
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3, no changes needed

 -- David Paleino <dapal at debian.org>  Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:05:23 +0100

But there is no way for a person to know what got
changed/added/deleted whatever in the new snapshot. It would be nice
to have a changelog.gz which tells the changes between the two
versions similar to say for e.g. like leafpad does :-

/usr/share/doc/leafpad$ ls
changelog.Debian.gz  changelog.gz  copyright  README

As can be seen there is a changelog.Debian.gz which tells/shares about
the packaging diffs that were made for each release as well as a
changelog file which tells/shares what got changed or added to the
newest release in leafpad. It would be nice if we can have that.I know
I could put it as wishlist but this IMHO is really needed to know what
the changes are.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages josm depends on:
ii  ant                              1.8.2-4
ii  libcommons-codec-java            1.5-1
ii  libgettext-commons-java          0.9.6-2
ii  libmetadata-extractor-java       2.3.1+dfsg-2
ii  liboauth-signpost-java           1.2.1.1-1
ii  libsvgsalamander-java            0~svn95-1
ii  openjdk-6-jre                    6b24-1.11.1-3
ii  openjdk-7-jre                    7~u3-2.1-3
ii  openstreetmap-map-icons-classic  1:0.0.svn27763-1

Versions of packages josm recommends:
ii  josm-plugins      <none>
ii  webkit-image-gtk  0.0.svn25399-2+b1

josm suggests no packages.

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