debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/1/30 Chow Loong Jin <hyperair at gmail.com>:
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 03:52 +0000, dmitrij.ledkov at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello all
>>
>> You can grab my packaging from lp:~dmitrij.ledkov/libsword/dima or view it here [1]
>>
>> I get the lintian warnings on two packages diatheke and the libsword-dev,
>>
>> saying that the debian changelog file is a symlink to the one in the libsword7 package.
>>
>> Unfortunately I have failed to figure out what part of the rules is doing that !!!
>>
>> =(((((( man page for the dh_installchangelogs says it doesn't do any symlinks.
>>
>> This is work in progress. Don't be harsh =)
>>
>>  [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dmitrij.ledkov/libsword/dima/files/head%3A/bindings/
>>
> Actually this debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink thing automatically
> happens in the case of Ubuntu when one package depends directly upon
> another, and both originate from the same source package. It's actually
> safe to ignore this warning in the case of Ubuntu, since it's a feature
> of Ubuntu's debhelper in order to save space on the install CD or
> something like that.

Aha!!!! So if the source package will be uploaded to the Debian archive the resulting binary will not have that?!

Ok Thanks!!!!!

-- 
With best regards


Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич

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