Control: tags -1 patch On 24/02/26 6:07 pm, Ian Jackson wrote: > Control: reassign -1 debhelper > Control: retitle -1 dh_installchangelogs should trim old NEWS.Debian entries > too > Control: found -1 13.30 > > tl;dr, esp. for debhelper maintainers: > > dh_installchangelogs should apply the same date/release-based > filtering algorithm to debian/NEWS aka NEWS.Debian that it does to > debian/changelog. > > Otherwise very old NEWS entries can appear in the .debs, even for > versions that the changelog doesn't mention. This is largely > harmless, but does cause a (correct) warning from lintian. > > If the resulting NEWS.Debian file is empty, it should probably be > omitted completely.
I'm not a debhelper maintainer (not yet at least), but I've opened a Merge Request implementing this suggestion. I tried for torsocks and it seems to be working. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/147 Best, Nilesh
