Bug#289723: lintian: ChangeLog compression is a 'should' not a 'must'
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.7
Severity: normal
Hi,
lintian outputs the following error:
E: obexftp: changelog-file-not-compressed ChangeLog.html
N:
N: Changelog files must be compressed using `gzip -9'. Even if they start
N: out small, they will become large with time.
N:
N: Refer to Policy Manual, section 12.7 for details.
N:
However, debian-policy 3.6.1 section 12.7 says:
If the upstream changelog is distributed in HTML, it should be made available
in that form as /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.html.gz and a plain text
changelog.gz should be generated from it using, for example,
lynx -dump -nolist.
There is no 'must' in there.
Additionally, changelog.html is not quite a common name, even the cvs2cl tool
creates a "ChangeLog" file.
HS
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9y
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.35-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.1-6 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.30+20040213 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii man-db 2.4.2-19 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- no debconf information
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