Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Hi Bill!

* Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 2015-10-11, 22:10:
> > The tag is emitted only if the timestamp is after the changelog.
> Then maybe this test could be indicated in the lintian-info output ?

Right, we should document it in the tag description.

> I try to fix debian-policy... I have made a lot of progress, but I 
> still get
>
> W: debian-policy: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz
> which this heuristic cannot deal with.

This looks like a true positive to me. The changelog is stored 
uncompressed in the source package, and only compressed at build time.

--
Jakub Wilk