Bug#470912: lintian: Please activate "no-upstream-changelog"

[gregor herrmann <gregor+debian@comodo.priv.at>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.46
Severity: wishlist

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About the only thing why I still run linda after lintian is the
warning about a missing upstream changelog which is quite helpful in
various situations (new changelog, missed in previous build, ...).

I wanted to suggest to add this functionality to lintian, just to
find out that it's already in checks/changelog-file{,.desc} but it's
commented out in the test:

	# This tag is disabled for now since a lot of packages fail this
	# aspect of policy and I want to clarify policy WRT multi-binary
	# packages first.
	#tag "no-upstream-changelog", "";

My suggestion would be to enable the check but set the Type to info
in changelog-file.desc until the open question is resolved. That way
it could still help interested maintainers without implying a policy
violation.

Cheers,
gregor

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