Package: dpkg-dev-el Version: 35.12 Severity: minor Control: affects -1 lintian
when i open debian/NEWS in emacs, i end up in debian-changelog mode, which encourages me to use bulleted lists like a regular changelog. But lintian complains: 0 dkg@alice:~$ lintian-info --tags debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk I: debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk N: N: The latest entry in NEWS.Debian appears to use asterisks to present N: changes in a bulleted list, similar to the normal changelog syntax. N: The Debian Developer's Reference recommends using regular paragraphs N: in NEWS.Debian rather than a bulleted list. N: N: Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.3.4 (Supplementing N: changelogs with NEWS.Debian files) for details. N: N: Severity: wishlist, Certainty: possible N: N: Check: changelog-file, Type: binary N: 0 dkg@alice:~$ it'd be nice to have these two things aligned. --dkg -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el depends on: ii debian-el 35.12 ii emacs24 [emacsen] 24.5+1-6+b2 Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el recommends: ii wget 1.18-2 Versions of packages dpkg-dev-el suggests: ii dpkg-dev 1.18.9 -- no debconf information