Székelyi Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm packaging a simple library building a shared lib and a development > package as usual. The -dev package depends on the one containing the > shared library. Policy says that it is permitted in this situation to > symlink documentation coming with the -dev package to the files > installed by the shared library package. Is this true in the case of > changelog.Debian.gz?
> lintian emits a warning (syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 0 "found > eof where expected first heading") while linda treats this an error (The > package contains no changelog.Debian.) I've cleaned up the handling of changelog files that are symlinks in lintian for the next release. It was doing a few weird things that resulted in unhelpful warnings that didn't talk about the actual problem. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
