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Re: lintian warnings



On Wed, Aug 26, 1998 at 09:43:22PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> 
> The changelog is expected to be Changelog.  Frankly I do not think we
> should have to change the file's name just to appease Lintian.

It should be changelog, actually (lowercase).

We don't do it to appease lintian, it was written in the policy long before
lintian existed.

The reason is consistency, you can type and use tab completeion, run scripts
over them, whatever. Maybe a symlink is okay.

Thank you,
Marcus

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