From 5a898e0a3b804e916229e8038ccad24f2c679647 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 05:44:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that section 12.3 does not mean that you can ignore
 section

Author: srivasta
Date: 2004/10/17 23:32:56
Clarify that section 12.3 does not mean that you can ignore section
12.7 (or, really, any other section) of the policy.

git-archimport-id: srivasta@debian.org--etch/debian-policy--devel--3.0--patch-274
---
 policy.sgml | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 4c2b9e1..dd8275d 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8336,7 +8336,18 @@ install-info --quiet --remove /usr/share/info/foobar.info
 	  <file>/usr/share/doc/<var>package</var></file> may be a symbolic
 	  link to another directory in <file>/usr/share/doc</file> only if
 	  the two packages both come from the same source and the
-	  first package Depends on the second.
+	  first package Depends on the second.<footnote>
+            <p>
+              Please note that this does not override the section on
+              changelog files below, so the file 
+              <file>/usr/share/<var>package</var>/changelog.Debian.gz</file>
+              must refer to the changelog for the current version of
+              <var>package</var> in question. In practice, this means
+              that the sources of the target and the destnation of the
+              symlink must be the same (same source package and
+              version). 
+            </p>
+          </footnote>
 	</p>
 
 	<p>
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