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Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload

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Hello,

On Tue 10 Dec 2024 at 10:32pm -08, Xiyue Deng wrote:

> I see.  I checked Policy 12.7[1] and it does suggest providing an
> upstream in plain text format and should be named `changelog', though
> as I understand it, the footnote suggests that the purpose is more about
> make it easy to be found instead of requiring the format.

Yes, exactly.  It's fine to install an Org-mode README.org as just
/usr/share/doc/package/README(.gz).

> Meanwhile, there are packages with README or CHANGELOG in markdown
> format, and shipping those are also common practice.  I think org files
> can be considered as similar.  As markdown is somehow in between a
> human-readable and machine-readable format, the boundary is kind of
> blurred, though I would like to think that they are essentially text
> format.
>
> That said, even though I would prefer to ship CHANGELOG.org under
> /usr/share/doc/dap-mode as-is, I would not insist.  Do you think it is
> OK to just skip/not-shipping it? (Or convert it to plain text which
> would need other dependencies that would be better to avoid :P)

I think you are stuck on file extensions.  They're not that important :)
Just ship it as is, under the name README.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1089625: RFS: dap-mode/0.8-1 -- DAP UI controls implemented using treemacs Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-12-10 06:40 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-10 11:30 +0100
    Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-12-10 19:50 +0100
      Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-11 03:20 +0100
        Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-12-11 07:40 +0100
          Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-12 04:00 +0100
            Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> - 2024-12-12 04:10 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-12 12:10 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-13 12:30 +0100
  Re: Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-12-14 21:00 +0100
    Re: Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-12-15 10:20 +0100
      Re: Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-12-16 22:00 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-15 03:40 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-15 12:00 +0100
    Re: Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Soren Stoutner <soren@debian.org> - 2024-12-16 22:20 +0100
      Re: Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 03:50 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-17 03:10 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-18 02:50 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-18 08:40 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-18 13:10 +0100
  Bug#1089625: dap-mode 0.8-1 upload Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2024-12-19 02:50 +0100

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