Package: lintian Version: 1.23.3 Severity: normal
Quoting a mail I wrote in #249414: Besides the copyright file, there's a similar problem with the changelog file (which obviously implies the current check for exactly the same version is correct): The first paragraph of section 12.7. of your policy is: <-- snip --> 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'. <-- snip --> I'd read this section of your policy that /usr/share/doc/<package>/changelog.Debian.gz must always point to "a compressed copy of the `debian/changelog' file from the Debian source tree" <package> was built from. Since this is a "must", a violation through a dependency that is not on exactly the same version of the package containing the actual file seems to be a RC bug.