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