Am Montag, den 15.02.2016, 12:48 +0100 schrieb Ricardo F.: > > > Hello, > > When I package tuptime https://github.com/rfrail3/tuptime/ [1] lintia > n > warning me about duplicate-changelog-files: > > tuptime: duplicate-changelog-files > usr/share/doc/tuptime/changelog.Debian.gz > usr/share/doc/tuptime/changelog.gz > > There is a symlink from CHANGELOG to debian/changelog, but I don't > found > why dh_installdocs copy both files. If I delete the symlink, it works > ok, but I don't know why if the lintian manual advert about doing a > symlink "If the second copy is really needed, consider making it a > symlink to the canonical place for the relevant changelog.- > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-changelog-files.html"; [2] i > t > doesn't work. >
After a brief look at the github repo, I suspect that lintian is complaining because you're using d/changelog as an upstream changelog. This would be discouraged, as d/changelog is supposed to document "Changes in the Debian version of the package" (refer to Policy 4.4) and not changes to upstream (even if you're upstream). -- tobi
