On Wednesday 12 February 2003 19:37, David Grant wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting this Lintain error for my package called "gav": > > E: gav: changelog-file-not-compressed CHANGELOG > > CHANGELOG is the upstream changelog for the source package and it is in > the package source root directory. I have it listed in my debian/docs > file along with the upstream README file. It says I can compress it > using 'gzip -9'. I tried this, and modified the debian/docs file...but > then I get some error while creating the package: > > dpkg-source: cannot represent change to CHANGELOG.gz: binary file > contents changed > dpkg-source: warning: ignoring deletion of file CHANGELOG > dpkg-source: building gav in gav_0.7.1-1.dsc > dpkg-source: unrepresentable changes to source > > Thanks to anyone who can help me.
You are supposed to gzip the Changelog during the install. Copy it to /usr/share/doc/package/CHANGELOG and then gzip it. You are not supposed to change the upstream tarball unless absolutely necessary.
