debian-changelog-file-is-a-symlink

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 04:23 +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> 
> 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!!!!!
> 
Yes, exactly. You can test it out with a Debian pbuilder if you like.

-- 
Chow Loong Jin
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