On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:41:46AM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > > So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest > > entry in the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry > > describing the changes in the latest release of the package, as > > specified in policy §4.4. > > > > How does this occur? A conversation on IRC suggested it might be > > related to binNMU upgrades, but I don't know enough about that > > aspect to judge. > > > > /usr/share/doc/mercurial is a symlink to mercurial-common. And > mercurial-common is arch all and not rebuilt for binNMUs. So maybe a > (minor) bug in mercurial?
See also #524191 (severity: serious, as it's a violation of policy 12.7). The bottomonline is all binary-dep packages must have their own copy of the changelog (and by extension their own /usr/share/doc dir). -- debtags-organised WNPP bugs: http://members.hellug.gr/serzan/wnpp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
