Yes Tobias, you are right. Keeping two different changelogs, one for Debian an the other for the package is the correct way.
Thanks, El 2016-02-15 13:31, Tobias Frost escribió: > Am Montag, den 15.02.2016, 12:48 +0100 schrieb Ricardo F.: > >> Hello, >> >> When I package tuptime https://github.com/rfrail3/tuptime/ [1] [1] lintia >> n >> warning me about duplicate-changelog-files: >> >> tuptime: duplicate-changelog-files >> usr/share/doc/tuptime/changelog.Debian.gz >> usr/share/doc/tuptime/changelog.gz >> >> There is a symlink from CHANGELOG to debian/changelog, but I don't >> found >> why dh_installdocs copy both files. If I delete the symlink, it works >> ok, but I don't know why if the lintian manual advert about doing a >> symlink "If the second copy is really needed, consider making it a >> symlink to the canonical place for the relevant changelog.- >> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-changelog-files.html [2]" [2] i >> t >> doesn't work. > > After a brief look at the github repo, I suspect that lintian is > complaining because you're using d/changelog as an upstream changelog. > > This would be discouraged, as d/changelog is supposed to document > "Changes in the Debian version of the package" (refer to Policy 4.4) > and not changes to upstream (even if you're upstream). > > -- > tobi Links: ------ [1] https://github.com/rfrail3/tuptime/ [2] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/duplicate-changelog-files.html
