Re: duplicate-changelog-files problem

[Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>]

Am Montag, den 15.02.2016, 12:48 +0100 schrieb Ricardo F.:
>  
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> When I package tuptime https://github.com/rfrail3/tuptime/ [1] lintia
> n
> warning me about duplicate-changelog-files: 
> 
>  tuptime: duplicate-changelog-files
> usr/share/doc/tuptime/changelog.Debian.gz
> usr/share/doc/tuptime/changelog.gz 
> 
> There is a symlink from CHANGELOG to debian/changelog, but I don't
> found
> why dh_installdocs copy both files. If I delete the symlink, it works
> ok, but I don't know why if the lintian manual advert about doing a
> symlink "If the second copy is really needed, consider making it a
> symlink to the canonical place for the relevant changelog.-
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-changelog-files.html"; [2] i
> t
> doesn't work. 
> 

After a brief look at the github repo, I suspect that lintian is
complaining because you're using d/changelog as an upstream changelog.

This would be discouraged, as d/changelog is supposed to document
"Changes in the Debian version of the package" (refer to Policy 4.4)
and not changes to upstream (even if you're upstream). 

-- 
tobi