Bug#683224: lintian: does not report "debian-changelog-file-missing" when there is a missing Debian changelog if /usr/share/doc is missing

[Faheem Mitha <faheem@faheem.info>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Niels Thykier wrote:

> This happens to be the intended behaviour as far as I can tell (slightly
> re-arrranged due to stupid MUA):
>
> """
> # ignore packages which don't have a /usr/share/doc/$pkg directory,
> # since the copyright check will complain about this
> """
>
> Where "this" is most likely the no-copyright-file (the comment / context
> does not say).

Hi Niels,

Thanks for the clarification. I think for completeness it would be better 
to complain about the missing changelog regardless, but that is just my 
opinion. If you think that is not going to happen, please feel free to 
close it.

                                                          Regards, Faheem