Bug#801528: lintian: package-contains-timestamped-gzip false positive
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> Hi Bill!
>
> * Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>, 2015-10-11, 22:10:
> >>The tag is emitted only if the timestamp is after the changelog.
> >Then maybe this test could be indicated in the lintian-info output ?
>
> Right, we should document it in the tag description.
>
> >I try to fix debian-policy... I have made a lot of progress, but I
> >still get
> >
> >W: debian-policy: package-contains-timestamped-gzip usr/share/doc/debian-policy/changelog.gz
> >which this heuristic cannot deal with.
>
> This looks like a true positive to me. The changelog is stored
> uncompressed in the source package, and only compressed at build
> time.
Being compressed at buildtime is not a problem, since the timestamp stored
is the original one, and it can be useful to preserve it.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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