Frank Lichtenheld <dj...@debian.org> writes: > Ok, there are some issues mixed here: > > 1) You install the ChangeLog file with dh_installdocs which is a bug > in your packaging, since it will already be installed with > dh_installchangelogs as changelog. > 2) lintian complains about the changelog not being compressed but what it > really should complain about is the duplicated changelog file, which > it would make it clearer that this is your fault ;)
I think the best thing that we can manage here in the short run is to just not issue a tag for this case, since it's occasionally desirable to have both ChangeLog and changelog. (If the maintainer installs NEWS as changelog, for instance.) We could potentially decide at a Policy level that that's not the right thing to do, but we don't really say right now. http://bugs.debian.org/459427 is relevant here. Ideally, we'd detect if ChangeLog and changelog were identical and warn about the duplicate, but I don't see a particularly straightforward way of doing that other than reading in the entire text of both and comparing it or forking a diff process or something, none of which feels horribly appealing. I think I'm going to fix the false positive and call that good enough for this bug and we can revisit it later if someone comes up with a good idea for how to make the test better. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org