Package: lintian Version: 2.2.18 Severity: normal I regularly get this warning on my packages during development because the latest changelog entry has been created before some other bug-fix only release of the former stable release that I merged into the current development release.
Simple case with dpkg, we release 1.15.5, we open 1.15.6 in master, we release a bugfix 1.15.5.1 on a sib branch, we merge that branch in master and boom we have that annoying warning: W: dpkg: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date Thus I suggest to disable this warning when the distribution is currently set to UNRELEASED because the timestamp of the changelog entry is reset at release time anyway. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.4 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-4 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.50-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
