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| From | Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> |
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| Subject | Re: apt-listchanges: appropriate heuristic for ignoring sub-packages with symlinked /usr/share/doc directories |
| Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2023 08:20:01 +0200 |
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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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