On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:10:20PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. > > Oh, so lintian gets confused and thinks that the upstream changelog is the > Debian changelog since it's the only file that it can find in that > directory that's named like a changelog file, and therefore issues both: > > E: perl binary: debian-changelog-file-missing-or-wrong-name > E: perl binary: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding at line > 331 > > because what it's actually analyzing in the latter is > /usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.gz. > > Yeah, that's pathological enough that I don't see any easy fix for it in > lintian without special-casing the perl package or not doing encoding > checks on misnamed changelog files. The latter is arguable, but the perl > package is the only package in Debian with this problem.
Shouldn't the perl package have a symlink to the changelog ? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]