[Bug 712837] Re: upstream changelog is installed with incorrect name

[Alex Valavanis]

Very strange.  Apparently, this doesn't happen in Debian - just in
Ubuntu.  The Debian bug has been closed as invalid.  Any suggestions??
Here's the Debian maintainer's comment from their bug tracker.

>>
% ls -l /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13788 May 21  2008 /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz
% apt-cache policy grace | grep Install
 Installed: 1:5.1.22-9

I'm not sure what Ubuntu is doing differently, but this bug does not appear to
be present in the Debian packages, either the one I built for the last upload
or the autobuilt packages from other architectures.  Note that changelog.gz and
CHANGES.html contain different content.


- Nicholas

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Title:
  upstream changelog is installed with incorrect name

Status in “grace” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “grace” package in Debian:
  Unknown

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grace

  A local build of grace_5.1.22-9 raised the lintian warning: "wrong-
  name-for-upstream-changelog".

  This occurs because Debian policy dictates that the upstream changelog
  should be installed to /usr/share/doc/grace/changelog.gz but we
  install it to /usr/share/doc/grace/CHANGES.html.  The relevant policy
  section can be found at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-
  docs.html#s-changelogs

  The reason why this is happening, is that we include the upstream
  changelog in the debian/grace.docs file in the source package which is
  parsed by dh_installdocs.  Instead, we should use dh_installchangelogs
  to create a compressed, plain-text copy of the changelog.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: grace 1:5.1.22-9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.28-generic 2.6.38-rc2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Feb  4 00:20:45 2011
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: grace