Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:10:20PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> 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 ? perl-base installs some of /usr/share/doc/perl, including changelog.Debian.gz, and creates a symlink from /usr/share/doc/perl-base to /usr/share/doc/perl. perl then installs some of the rest of the contents of /usr/share/doc/perl, but uses the copyright file and changelog.Debian.gz from perl-base. It's not how I would have done it, but I believe it complies with Policy. I would have just created /usr/share/doc/perl-base and duplicated the Debian changelog and the copyright file there, on the grounds that the small savings in disk space isn't worth the complexity, but it's hard to make a compelling argument other than aesthetics. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
