Bug#646192: lintian: [checks/changelog-file] Do not tag no-upstream-changelog if a NEWS file is present ?

To: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 646192@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#646192: lintian: [checks/changelog-file] Do not tag no-upstream-changelog if a NEWS file is present ?
From: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:05:04 +0200
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* Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 2011-10-22, 13:04:

many packages in the section gnu-r are built with the r-dev helper,which installs upstream's changelog under its original file name, NEWS.How about suppressing the tag no-upstream-changelog if a NEWS file ispresent?

Do you mean that wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog should be emittedinstead?


See also bug #459427.

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Jakub Wilk

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