[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#962267: Bug#962267: xen: please consider to not install NEWS into runtime library packages

Ansgar ansgar at debian.org
Fri Jun 5 12:34:08 BST 2020


On Fri, 2020-06-05 at 12:09 +0200, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> > Installing NEWS into xen*, but not libxen* probably still reaches all
> > relevant users.
> 
> Yes, that makes sense.
> 
> OTOH, what if there was a really weird problem with libxenmisc4.11 that
> we would like to pro-actively inform users about?

In that case shipping NEWS in libxen* would of course be fine in my
opinion even if it also includes some additional information that might
only be relevant to users of the other NEWS files.

> I guess there is only one NEWS per source package?

You can have `debian/<package>.NEWS` for per-binary NEWS when using
`dh_installchangelogs` or install them in some other way. But it
increases overhead and I would personally avoid having per-binary NEWS
for this reason.

Ansgar



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