Hi Guillem, > As pointed out in > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2015/06/msg00034.html>, the > changelog trailer part of the regex to support timezone names is bogus. > And it seems the best thing to do is to remove it instead of fixing it. > For more details either see tha above mail or the commit message on the > attached patch. Beware, that the patch has not been tested!
Thanks for the patch! My understanding from the relevant thread is that this TZ name feature didn't work properly in the past and that it now cannot be used because dpkg will reject the changelog entry as being invalid. That should mean that we won't see new changelog entries with the TZ name in them, but are there historical changelog entries that include it? Do we know how many that might be? python-debian's changelog support is used to iterate through the entire changelog not just the last changelog entry so removing the ability to parse these entries would either generate warnings or raise exceptions depending on the strictness specified by the caller. A question for you (and my co-maintainers), does it make sense to become more strict in what is accepted? cheers Stuart -- 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
