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  1. Bug #712837
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Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote : upstream changelog is installed with incorrect name

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