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

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