Re: Lintain changelog-file-not-compressed error: how can I fix this?

[David Grant <dgrant@iam-net.com>]

Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:

> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:37, David Grant wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav":
> >
> > E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG
> >
> > CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it is in
> > the package source root directory.  I have it listed in my debian/docs
> > file along with the upstream README file.  It says I can compress it
> > using 'gzip -9'.  I tried this, and modified the debian/docs file...but
> > then I get some error while creating the package:
> >
> > dpkg-source: cannot represent change to CHANGELOG.gz: binary file
> > contents changed
> > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file CHANGELOG
> > dpkg-source: building gav in gav_0.7.1-1.dsc
> > dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source
> >
> > Thanks to anyone who can help me.
> >    
>
> You are supposed to gzip the Changelog during the install.  Copy it to 
> /usr/share/doc/package/CHANGELOG and then gzip it.  You are not supposed to 
> change the upstream tarball unless absolutely necessary.
Hmm, I seem to like the solution provided by Ken better, which was to use

dh_installchangelogs CHANGELOG

I just tested this, and it works perfectly.  changelog.gz and changelog.Debian.gz are installed to /usr/share/doc/package/ directory nicely...

This does not involve changing the upstream tarball.

Cheers,

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David J. Grant
M.A.Sc. Candidate
a-Si and Integrated Circuits Group
University of Waterloo
Ontario, Canada
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