Benjamin Drung <[email protected]> writes:
> It's not forbidden in the policy, is it? CDBS symlinks the changelog
> file on Ubuntu. Quote from cdbs 0.4.62+nmu1ubuntu1:
> + Symlink /usr/share/doc/ files to identical versions in any depending
> package which is built by the source package (except copyright, to
> adhere to Debian Policy). This can be disabled by setting
> $CDBS_NO_DOC_SYMLINKING.
Debian Policy 12.7 says:
Packages that are not Debian-native must contain a compressed copy of
the debian/changelog file from the Debian source tree in
/usr/share/doc/package with the name changelog.Debian.gz.
Historically, we've read this as requiring the changelog file be a real
file and not a link unless the entire /usr/share/doc directory is linked
(as allowed for in 12.3).
I think the restriction should probably be relaxed in Debian, but it needs
to go through the normal Policy change process.
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Please merge lintian 2.3.0 (main) from Debian unstable (main).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/500870
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