Bug#263377: Already reported, and lintian is correct

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

merge 249414 263377
thanks

Hi Joey,

first of all, this issue was already discussed to dead in #249414.

My opinion why lintian is correct:


The first paragraph of section 12.7. of your policy is:

<--  snip  -->

     Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of
     the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree in
     `/usr/share/doc/<package>' with the name `changelog.Debian.gz'.

<--  snip  -->

I'd read this section of your policy that
/usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz must always point to
"a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source
tree" <package> was built from.

Since this is a "must", a violation through a dependency that is not on
exactly the same version of the package containing the actual file seems
to be a RC bug.



cu
Adrian

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