Bug#436716: marked as done (W: changelog-file-not-compressed changelog should not be displayed if changelog is a symlink)
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.32ubuntu1
Severity: normal
Consider the package smake. [1] It has the warning
"W: changelog-file-not-compressed changelog". The changelog is a symlink
to an 'announcement file'.
I think the warning should be omitted if the file 'changelog' is
actually a symlink. Do you agree here?
[1]
http://lintian.debian.org/reports/mJoerg_Jaspert.html#smake
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers gutsy-updates
APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-9-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17.20070804cvs-0ubuntu1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2build1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.5ubuntu3 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-2ubuntu2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debia 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debia 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.4-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdiges 5.8.8-7ubuntu2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> I think this is completely unambiguous and there's no exception for
> symlinks despite symlinks being specifically mentioned. I don't see any
> reason why the announcement file should not be compressed, and if it's
> not, it's either not accessible via /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz
> or there's a file with a .gz extension that isn't actually compressed,
> which is likely to confuse matters.
>
> Consistency across packages seems more important here to me than saving
> some minor effort by not bothering to compress some small files.
Thanks for your input. I agree with this rationale.
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Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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