[darcs-devel] ./ChangeLog vs. ./debian/changelog

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 07:45:57 -0500, David Roundy <droundy at abridgegame.org>
wrote in message <20050201124554.GC5106 at abridgegame.org>:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:58:25PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > Is there any chance to automatically "sync" ./ChangeLog with
> > ./debian/changelog? This would sound like a perfect solution :-)
> 
> The contents of ./debian are in general a bit out of date.  Since darcs has
> been packaged for debian proper, I haven't been making debs, and the debian
> maintainer hasn't been sending patches to keep ./debian up to date.  A
> patch to generate ./debian/changelog from ./ChangeLog would be welcome.  It
> would definitely be nice for users to be able to easily compile a deb from
> the darcs sources.

The problematic part is that ./debian/changelog is currently also under
revision control. I'm personally interested in cleaning this up, so my
approach would be:

	- delete ./debian/changelog .  I don't see much sense in
	  checking in *two* changelogs on a regular basis.
	- Add a script to the ./debian/ directory that tries to get
	  something useful out of ./ChangeLog
	- You've already got a small fix to allow both libcurl2 and
	  libcurl3 for building (though, it didn't show up on the
	  darcs-devel mailing list...)

Comments? I'll prepare a patch for that...

MfG, JBG

-- 
Jan-Benedict Glaw       jbglaw at lug-owl.de    . +49-172-7608481             _ O _
"Eine Freie Meinung in  einem Freien Kopf    | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg  _ _ O
 fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! |   im Irak!   O O O
ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
Url : http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-devel/attachments/20050201/0e71609e/attachment.pgp