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Bug#513544: lintian: pedantic 'no-upstream-changelog' should check if upsteam changelog is not empty



* Francesco Poli <invernomuto@paranoici.org>, 2012-09-11, 19:51:
since dh_installchangelog skips empty upsteam changelog files, so the pedantic tag should be not shown in that situation.

Hello, I've just been hit by this bug.

I was running lintian on a package where the upstream changelog is present but empty and I failed to understand how I could fix the problem with the package, until I realized that the lintian complaint was actually a false positive.

Why was it a false positive? Was it because it was the very first upstream release, and as such didn't have any changes any yet? In my experience, empty changelog is a very weak indicator of such situations.

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Jakub Wilk


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