On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 01:13:06AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I forward it to the BTS to not forget it. It's a minor issue since > it only affects one or two packages in the archive.
... one of them being the default MTA, exim4. > Anyway, 'debian/changelog' being a symlink is awkward... Policy 4.4: > "Changes in the Debian version of the package should be briefly > explained in the Debian changelog file debian/changelog.", which a > willing mind can read as that debian/changelog must be a file, implying > it cannot be a symlink. What about checking whether debian/changelog is > a symlink, and bail out with a lintian warning if it is? exim4-daemon-heavy and exim4-daemon-light depend on exim4-base, and their changelog.gz is a symlink to the file in exim4-base. I don't think that this is a policy violation. Greetings Marc
