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Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small



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Hi Frank,

Frank Lichtenheld schrieb:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:55:07AM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote:
>> I wrote some minutes ago:
>>>> Is the package where you encountered this problem publicly available?  I'd
>>>> be happy to take a look at it and try to understand what happened.
>>> Yes, libaqbanking in the affected version is in the archive in unstable.
>>> You can have a look on the false positives here:
>>> http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/micha@lenk.info.html#libaqbanking
>> Err, true positives I wanted to say...
> 
> Ok, there are some issues mixed here:
> 
> 1) You install the ChangeLog file with dh_installdocs which is a bug
>    in your packaging, since it will already be installed with
>    dh_installchangelogs as changelog.

Interesting point I've missed so far. Thanks for pointing it out.
I will fix that in the next upload.

> 2) lintian complains about the changelog not being compressed but what it
>    really should complain about is the duplicated changelog file, which
>    it would make it clearer that this is your fault ;)

Yes. So, how do we proceed with this bug now?

Regards
  Micha
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