Bug#1010496: lintian: debian/changelog.dch
Package: lintian
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Hello, I recently noticed a few files named debian/changelog.dch in
several Ubuntu packages:
$ locate changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/main/a/apparmor/apparmor_3.0.3-0ubuntu1/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/main/x/x11proto-composite/x11proto-composite_0.4.2-2/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/a/android-platform-frameworks-data-binding/android-platform-frameworks-data-binding_2.2.2-3~18.04.1/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/c/comedilib/comedilib_0.8.1-5ubuntu6/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/d/ddtp-translations/ddtp-translations_20160408.1/debian/.changelog.dch.swp
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/f/filtergen/filtergen_0.12.4-5.1ubuntu1/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/l/lwm/lwm_1.2.2-2/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/l/lwm/lwm_1.2.2-2/debian/changelog.dch.save.1
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/libg/libg15/libg15_1.2.7-2ubuntu1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/libg/libg15/libg15_1.2.7-2ubuntu2/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/m/moonshot-trust-router/moonshot-trust-router_1.4.1-1ubuntu1/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/p/parso/parso_0.5.1-0.1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/p/parso/parso_0.5.2-1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/p/parso/parso_0.5.2-1ubuntu1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/p/parso/parso_0.7.0-1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/p/parso/parso_0.8.0-0ubuntu1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/p/parso/parso_0.8.1-1/debian/changelog.dch.save
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/r/rsstail/rsstail_1.8-1/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/s/shed/shed_1.15-4/debian/changelog.dch
/fst/trees/ubuntu/universe/t/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty9-clojure/trapperkeeper-webserver-jetty9-clojure_4.1.0-2/debian/changelog.dch
Some of these exist in the Debian packages, as well:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=debian+path%3Adebian%2Fchangelog.dch&literal=0
I'd like to suggest a lintian warning for files matching the glob
debian/*changelog.dch*
It's possible this could or should be part of duplicate-changelog-files:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-changelog-files
Paul Wise pointed out to me some odd patterns in the output of:
apt-file --regex -I dsc search ^/debian/[^/]*changelog | grep -v ': /debian/changelog$'
Unfortunately I don't currently have working dsc indexes, so I'm not
entirely sure what these patterns look like.
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