Re: lintian bug or not ?

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

>>>> "MZ" == Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

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>> E: gnome-panel-data: debian-changelog-file-missing
>> 
>> This is normal ?

MZ> Lintian has no way to check whether the changelog is valid, since it isn't in
MZ> the package.  It seems to have a special check for packages which symlink
MZ> /usr/share/doc/mypkg1 -> /usr/share/doc/mypkg2, and skips those.  But if
MZ> changelog.Debian.gz is a symlink, it expects it not to be broken.  It seems
MZ> like lintian's thinking is that if you include a doc directory, it should
MZ> contain a copy of the changelog.  If all of the docs are the same, symlink the
MZ> whole doc directory.

I can't because, I've html documentations in the -data package.

MZ> I personally prefer that all packages contain a copy of the changelog.  I think
MZ> it is very important that one can download a new version of any single package
MZ> and see the changelog.  This would not be as important, I guess, if there were
MZ> a way to see the changelog for a package without downloading it.

I agree.

Christian