Bug#850611: [resolved] Re: Bug#850611: src:org-mode: missing changelog?

Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:01:23 -0400

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tldr, resolved.

Hi Ihor,

Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> writes:

> Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> On Jan/08, Olivier Berger wrote:
>>>> Having some kind of upstream changelog comparable to upstream's could
>>>> help also.
>>>
>>> I agree, but that's also not something available inside the
>>> tarball. Would you like to open an upstream bug asking them to package
>>> the release notes, and then we can also have it in Debian ?
>>
>> I'm not sure if Olivier ever contacted you about providing a changelog
>> in the release tarball (or in the docs in git), but I wanted to write to
>> you to say that I would also appreciate this, and I'd like to include
>> them in the Debian package.  Olivier's wish appears to be to make it
>> easier to determine whether switching from the Debian-provided package
>> to the direct use of your ELPA package would resolve one or more bugs.
>
> Do you mean etc/ORG-NEWS? It should be included in the ELPA tarball.
>

Aha!  Sorry, I forgot I started to ship this back in 2024, and was
triaging a bug that predated that event.  We ship it as

    /usr/share/doc/elpa-org/changelog.gz

and of course it opens correctly in org-mode because of the file-local
variable.  Thanks for setting that, by the way.

Sorry for the noise and thanks for the quick reply.
Best,
Nicholas

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