Changelog filename for native package

[paguardiolle]

Thanks for your great job. Cargo-deb is very usefull.

However we still have an issue regarding native packages and their changelog name.

If we refer to debian policy (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-changelogs)
"Packages that are not Debian-native [...] with the name changelog.Debian.gz"

However it seems that "native package" (aka package related to Debian distro only) must have a filename like "/package/changelog.gz".

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.en.html explains:

"This file will be installed in /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz, or /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz for native packages."

Can you please add a flag and/or an option to choice bw "changelog.Debian.gz" and "changelog.gz" ?

Many thanks.

[kornelski]

I think we're currently generating changelog.Debian.gz, which is correct for "non-native" packages.

I don't plan to support "native" packages, because Debian has many complex requirements for its native packages that a simple crate like this can't easily satisfy (changelog filename is the easy part, unbundling and src packages are harder). For "proper" Debian packages see debcargo crate.

[paguardiolle]

Ok. Thanks for your answer.

However when a try to package a "hello world" Rust app, my package is still recognized as a native by lintian ? is there sthing I'm missing ?

[kornelski]

For Debian "native" means "official". The native packages are the ones shipped by the Debian project, not you (unless you're an official Debian maintainer working for the Debian project).

So pretty much by definition everything you do with cargo-deb is non-native, because cargo-deb hasn't been chosen by the Debian project to make their official packages.