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Package: grace
Version: 1:5.1.22-9
Severity: minor
Hi Nicholas,
A local build of grace_5.1.22-9 in Ubuntu raised the lintian warning:
"wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog".
This occurs because Debian policy dictates that the upstream changelog
should be installed to /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz but we
install it to /usr/share/doc/grace/CHANGES.html. The relevant policy
section can be found at
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-changelogs
I believe the reason why this is happening, is that we include the
HTML version of the upstream changelog in the debian/grace.docs file
in the source package which is parsed by dh_installdocs. Instead, we
should use dh_installchangelogs to create a compressed, plain-text
copy of the changelog.
I have attached a copy of the debdiff I submitted to Ubuntu, which I
believe solves the problem.
Thanks,
Alex
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: grace 1:5.1.22-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Feb 4 00:20:45 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grace
grace_5.1.22-9ubuntu1.debdiff
Description: Binary data
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--- Begin Message ---
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 12:50:20AM +0000, Alex Valavanis wrote:
> Package: grace
> Version: 1:5.1.22-9
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi Nicholas,
>
> A local build of grace_5.1.22-9 in Ubuntu raised the lintian warning:
> "wrong-name-for-upstream-changelog".
>
> This occurs because Debian policy dictates that the upstream changelog
> should be installed to /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz but we
> install it to /usr/share/doc/grace/CHANGES.html. The relevant policy
> section can be found at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-changelogs
% ls -l /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13788 May 21 2008 /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz
% apt-cache policy grace | grep Install
Installed: 1:5.1.22-9
I'm not sure what Ubuntu is doing differently, but this bug does not appear to
be present in the Debian packages, either the one I built for the last upload
or the autobuilt packages from other architectures. Note that changelog.gz and
CHANGES.html contain different content.
- Nicholas
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