I've rolled the patches attached to this bug into a merge request on salsa (with some minor updates as debfile.py itself has changed slightly since they were submitted).
https://salsa.debian.org/python-debian-team/python-debian/-/merge_requests/32 However, looking carefully at Policy ยง12.7, searching in /usr/share/doc/ $source/ would be the wrong thing to do. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#changelog-files-and-release-notes Non-native packages are required to have /usr/share/doc/$package/ changelog.Debian.gz but the directory (or perhaps the file) can be a symlink; this is the case for perl-base that is cited in the bug report. $ dpkg -S /usr/share/doc/perl-base perl-base: /usr/share/doc/perl-base $ ls -l /usr/share/doc/perl-base lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 10 2017 /usr/share/doc/perl-base -> perl/ $ dpkg -L perl-base | grep changelog /usr/share/doc/perl/changelog.Debian.gz and therefore "/usr/share/doc/perl-base/changelog.Debian.gz" exists, but only via a symlink. The correct approach to finding the changelog is probably not to look at source package names, but to try to follow symlinks within the .deb -- Stuart Prescott http://www.nanonanonano.net/ stu...@nanonanonano.net Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/ stu...@debian.org GPG fingerprint 90E2 D2C1 AD14 6A1B 7EBB 891D BBC1 7EBB 1396 F2F7
