Bug#973759: lintian: False positive: debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink matches on upstream changelog
Hi,
On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 7:12 AM Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org> wrote:
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> Huh? This should be obvious from the binary package version number.
It isn't. A well-known example is python-defaults [1], which is native
even though the version number suggests otherwise. The corresponding
heuristics were dropped from Lintian two years ago. [2]
In addition, it is not well-publicized that version numbers for
installation (aka "binary") packages are not necessarily tied to the
version strings for their sources, but I do not remember an example
right now.
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/python-defaults
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/8e8341470ba2a5e1d8d58776b5d32c0e4a70b4c8
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