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Re: apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages with symlinked /usr/share/doc directories

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Hi,

On 10/10/23 06:24, Jonathan Kamens wrote:

>   * binary package name different from source name
>   * deb contains no changelog or NEWS files in /usr/share/doc
>   * creates a symlink in /usr/share/doc with the binary package name as
>     its name, pointing at another directory in /usr/share/doc

I'd go an easier way: if the changelog is a symlink, its target is the 
changelog to use, so the same changelog (with the same file name) will 
be used by multiple packages, and all that's left is to deduplicate this 
list.

    Simon

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apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages with  symlinked /usr/share/doc directories Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-09 23:30 +0200
  Re: apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages  with symlinked /usr/share/doc directories Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> - 2023-10-10 08:20 +0200
    Re: apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages  with symlinked /usr/share/doc directories Jonathan Kamens <jik@kamens.us> - 2023-10-10 15:10 +0200

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