Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk> writes:
Back when I was in-house I advocated to copy Changes, NEWS, whereever the changelog for the software itself is, and I still do. It's very convienient to be able to access this information when off-line, etc.
For sheer convienience it's great.
I consider it very unconvienient esp. because contents and format of said files look different in all these upstream packages. I'd rather would like us to summarize upstream changes consistently. This would mean real work and nobody dares to ask for it...
Besides. It's the changes to the software, hence the package. If you dont want it, it should be called package-container changes.
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