On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 03:35:40PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Hi Bill! > > * Bill Allombert <[email protected]>, 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, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
