Since Manoj asked for comments, here's mine... I agree with Adrian. I have some packages where the changelog resides in the -common (or libfoo1) binary package and other packages (like libfoo1-dev) link to it with dh_link. In the case of libraries, the versioned dependency is guaranteed and properly created by dpkg-shlibdeps, but in the case of -common packages, this may not be the case. package bar 1.2.3-1 could depend on package bar-common (>= 1.2). In that situation, the changelog accessible at /usr/share/doc/bar/changelog.Debian.gz would be outdated and does not correspond to the version of bar installed. I think this should be clarified in that links to the changelog should require exact versioned dependencies. Cheers, -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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