Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:41:46AM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote:
> On Saturday 30 January 2010, Ben Finney wrote:
> > So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest
> > entry in the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry
> > describing the changes in the latest release of the package, as
> > specified in policy §4.4.
> >
> > How does this occur? A conversation on IRC suggested it might be
> > related to binNMU upgrades, but I don't know enough about that
> > aspect to judge.
> >
>
> /usr/share/doc/mercurial is a symlink to mercurial-common. And
> mercurial-common is arch all and not rebuilt for binNMUs. So maybe a
> (minor) bug in mercurial?
See also #524191 (severity: serious, as it's a violation of policy 12.7).
The bottomonline is all binary-dep packages must have their own copy of the
changelog (and by extension their own /usr/share/doc dir).
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