Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:37, David Grant wrote:
Hi,
I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav":
E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG
CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it is in
the package source root directory. I have it listed in my debian/docs
file along with the upstream README file. It says I can compress it
using 'gzip -9'. I tried this, and modified the debian/docs file...but
then I get some error while creating the package:
dpkg-source: cannot represent change to CHANGELOG.gz: binary file
contents changed
dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file CHANGELOG
dpkg-source: building gav in gav_0.7.1-1.dsc
dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source
Thanks to anyone who can help me.
You are supposed to gzip the Changelog during the install. Copy it to
/usr/share/doc/package/CHANGELOG and then gzip it. You are not supposed to
change the upstream tarball unless absolutely necessary.
Hmm, I seem to like the solution provided by Ken better, which was to use
dh_installchangelogs CHANGELOG
I just tested this, and it works perfectly. changelog.gz and changelog.Debian.gz are installed to /usr/share/doc/package/ directory nicely...
This does not involve changing the upstream tarball.
Cheers,
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David J. Grant
M.A.Sc. Candidate
a-Si and Integrated Circuits Group
University of Waterloo
Ontario, Canada
519-880-0665
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