Bug#973759: lintian: False positive: debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink matches on upstream changelog
On 2020-11-04 Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com> wrote:
> 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.
Hello,
It does not need to imho. It should simply consider
/usr/share/doc/package/changelog.Debian.gz as Debian changelog if it
exists and only fall back to /usr/share/doc/package/changelog.gz
otherwise.
cu Andreas
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