Oh, my error: I misread, you did indeed use incomplete. My apologies.
To expand on my answer: it is not clearly documented in Debian, but
lintian is correct in that symlinking the changelog file to another
package is treated as a bug in Debian: a changelog is a required part of
each package, and symlinking doesn't mean the file is in the package.
It's possible to get into a situation where the symlink target isn't
installed, and then the changelog isn't available at all for that
package.
Ubuntu does not have a problem with this, and Ubuntu's build daemons
replace identical copies of changelogs with symlinks to one.
** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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Please disable "debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink" warning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329060
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