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I'm not sure if this belongs to the lintian or developers-reference package, or both. But it's at least confusing to me in lintian. Based on this paragraph in developers-reference, I added a ``debian/NEWS.Debian`` file to a package: 6.3.5 Supplementing changelogs with NEWS.Debian files After building the package and running lintian, I get a warning: incorrect-packaging-filename better: debian/NEWS [debian/NEWS.Debian] So I updated the package by renaming it to ``debian/NEWS``. Build the package again and run lintian and I get this warning: debian-news-entry-has-strange-distribution UNRELEASED Note that this warning did NOT show up when I had a ``debian/NEWS.Debian`` file, so it seems to 'require' ``debian/NEWS``. ``lintian-explain-tags debian-news-entry-has-strange-distribution`` then explains what it's for, mentioning ``NEWS.Debian``. So I cloned the lintian repo to make a MR to replace ``NEWS.Debian`` with ``debian/NEWS`` for that tag. Thinking there may be more such things, I ran ``grep -rn "NEWS.Debian"`` ... which returned a LONG list. So I filed this bug instead of the MR. The incorrect-packaging-filename explainer also has this line: "Debhelper sometimes adds *.Debian extensions to NEWS, README and TODO files." So it *sometimes* adds the ``.Debian`` extension (but not always?), but ``wrong-name-for-debian-news-file`` says this: "The Debian news file must be installed as /usr/share/doc/*pkg*/NEWS.Debian.gz with exactly that capitalization" I'm assuming the *must* word complies with RFC2119 and was deliberately chosen? So it's confusing to first get a warning about using ``NEWS.Debian`` to then get a warning which uses ``NEWS.Debian`` in its explanation. I don't know if (some?) references are outdated and should use the 'new' name or whether it's all technically correct and just confusing as hell for 'newbies' like me, in which case an explanation in developers-reference would be much appreciated. PS: The ``wrong-name-for-debian-news-file`` tag references 6.3.4. - -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.6.13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.41.90.20240122-1 ii bzip2 1.0.8-5+b2 ii diffstat 1.65-1 ii dpkg 1.22.2 ii dpkg-dev 1.22.2 ii file 1:5.45-2+b1 ii gettext 0.21-14 ii gpg 2.2.40-1.1+b1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.6 ii iso-codes 4.16.0-1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.40+b3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1 ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-2+b2 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-2 ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-4+b2 ii libclone-perl 0.46-1+b1 ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.30-1 ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-2 ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.37-1+b1 ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.59-1 ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1 ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-2 ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-2+b2 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.22.2 ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.05-1+b2 ii libencode-perl 3.20-1+b1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.09-2 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-3 ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-2 ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-3 ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-4 ii libio-interactive-perl 1.025-1 ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-3 ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004005-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-2 ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.59-1 ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.12-2 ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-4 ii libmoo-perl 2.005005-1 ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-2 ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.144-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.20-1+b2 ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.010-1+b1 ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.636-1+b1 ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-3 ii libsereal-decoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b1 ii libsereal-encoder-perl 5.004+ds-1+b1 ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-3 ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.29-1+b1 ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-2+b2 ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-5+b2 ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.16-1+b1 ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.9-1+b3 ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-2 ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-2+b2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2 ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-2+b1 ii liburi-perl 5.21-1 ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.17-1 ii libwww-perl 6.73-1 ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0207+dfsg+really+2.0134-1+b2 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.86+ds-1+b1 ii lzop 1.04-2 ii man-db 2.12.0-3 ii patchutils 0.4.2-1 ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.38.2-3 ii plzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.11-1 ii t1utils 1.41-4 ii unzip 6.0-28 ii xz-utils 5.4.5-0.3 lintian recommends no packages. 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