Bug#973759: lintian: False positive: debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink matches on upstream changelog

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Andreas,

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 9:15 AM Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> wrote:
>
> However the Debian changelog file is not a symlink, only the upstream
> one.

Unfortunately, Lintian cannot tell from an installation package
(*.deb) whether it was built from a native source package. Possible
solutions are:

1. Via policy, prescribe a constant basename for Debian changelogs,
regardless of "nativeness".
2. In installation packages, add information about nativeness to the
control files in DEBIAN/.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner