On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:11:22PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Of those, perl is a false positive (caused by lintian not detecting the > > correct changelog file), > > Please provide more details? I know perl does odd things (relative to > most Debian packages) with the changelog file, but I don't know why that > would cause lintian to misdiagnose this tag. It may be easy to fix.
The package "perl" doesn't ship its own copy of changelog.Debian, but instead relies on it's dependency, perl-base. Yet, it does ship other stuff in /usr/share/doc/perl/, including the upstream changelog. -- 1KB // Microsoft corollary to Hanlon's razor: // Never attribute to stupidity what can be // adequately explained by malice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]