Package: lintian Severity: minor On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 06:23:22PM -0500, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > I'm just learning how to make Debian packages. I got the following messages > from lintian: > > $ lintian yadex_1.7.0-1_i386.deb > W: yadex: postinst-should-not-set-usr-doc-link > W: yadex: postinst-has-useless-call-to-update-menus > W: yadex: postrm-has-useless-call-to-update-menus > E: yadex: file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile /etc/yadex.cfg > E: yadex: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl > E: yadex: unknown-control-file copyright > E: yadex: debian-changelog-file-missing > E: yadex: debian-changelog-file-uses-obsolete-national-encoding at line 39 > > The 2nd to last line correctly says there's no changelog.Debian file. > > Then the last line says that the non-existing changelog.Debian file uses an > obsolete national encoding. > > I don't think that last line can be correct.
Yeah, there some cases where the current code could produce such inconsistencies. These are: you named the Debian changelog file changelog or changelog.gz (should be changelog.Debian.gz) or you only included the upstream changelog. This should be fixed, I will record it in the BTS. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
