Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Frank Lichtenheld writes: > Ok, there are some issues mixed here: > > 1) You install the ChangeLog file with dh_installdocs which is a bug >in your packaging, since it will already be installed with >dh_installchangelogs as changelog. > 2) lintian complains about the changelog not being c

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:24:30PM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld schrieb: > > 2) lintian complains about the changelog not being compressed but what it > >really should complain about is the duplicated changelog file, which > >it would make it clearer that this is your fault

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-21 Thread Micha Lenk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Frank, Frank Lichtenheld schrieb: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:55:07AM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote: >> I wrote some minutes ago: Is the package where you encountered this problem publicly available? I'd be happy to take a look at it and try

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-21 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:55:07AM +0100, Micha Lenk wrote: > I wrote some minutes ago: > >> Is the package where you encountered this problem publicly available? I'd > >> be happy to take a look at it and try to understand what happened. > > > > Yes, libaqbanking in the affected version is in th

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Lenk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I wrote some minutes ago: >> Is the package where you encountered this problem publicly available? I'd >> be happy to take a look at it and try to understand what happened. > > Yes, libaqbanking in the affected version is in the archive in unsta

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-18 Thread Micha Lenk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Russ Allbery wrote: > Micha, is it possible that you called the debhelper scripts in the wrong > order? If, for example, you called dh_installchangelogs after > dh_compress, that could cause this problem. I doubt it because it's called from with

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Joey Hess writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> I believe that if you install them with dh_installchangelogs, they'll >> be compressed. I think that's the way you're "supposed" to install the >> upstream changelog. > > No matter how the changelog is installed, dh_compress is the *only* > thing in deb

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-16 Thread Joey Hess
Russ Allbery wrote: > I believe that if you install them with dh_installchangelogs, they'll be > compressed. I think that's the way you're "supposed" to install the > upstream changelog. No matter how the changelog is installed, dh_compress is the *only* thing in debhhelper that will compress it,

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Micha Lenk writes: > Thank you for pointing this out. So, you say it's dh_compress that is > failing to compress the ChangeLogs if they are smaller than 4k. > > I would agree on reassigning this bug to debhelper. I believe that if you install them with dh_installchangelogs, they'll be compressed

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-16 Thread Micha Lenk
Russ Allbery schrieb: > Micha Lenk writes: > >> in chapter 12.3 the policy says: >> >> "Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be >> installed >> at the discretion of the package maintainer. Plain text documentation >> should >> be installed in the directory `/usr/

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Micha Lenk writes: > in chapter 12.3 the policy says: > > "Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be installed > at the discretion of the package maintainer. Plain text documentation should > be installed in the directory `/usr/share/doc/', where is > the name of

Bug#515601: lintian: false positive changelog-file-not-compressed if corresponding file is small

2009-02-16 Thread Micha Lenk
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2.1 Severity: normal Hi, in chapter 12.3 the policy says: "Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Plain text documentation should be installed in the directory `/usr/share/doc/'