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Bug#935072: [lintian] Asymmetrical tag names



Package: lintian
Severity: minor

Hi,

When converting the test suite to source format 3.0 some tests switched the tag

    debian-changelog-file-missing-or-wrong-name

to

    changelog-file-missing-in-native-package

Both tags seem to be essentially the same, except that the missing
changelog is expected in different locations in native vs. non-native
packages (/usr/share/doc/pkg/changelog.gz vs.
/usr/share/doc/pkg/changelog.Debian.gz). The tag is not emitted by any
packages in the archive.

In my view, it is unnecessary to issue two different tags. I would
like to use a shorter tag name for both, and show the expected path,
plus perhaps an annotation like

    debian-changelog-file-missing /usr/share/doc/pkg/changelog.gz
(native changelog location)

Any thoughts?

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner


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