Package: lintian Version: 2.5.0~rc2 Severity: wishlist -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256
Hi Looking at two uploads today ([1], [2]) I noticed that the urgency of the newest entry of the changelog was low, but the changes had urgency high or critical. The high/critical urgency was most likely inherited from earlier entries. If the package is truly includes uploads of high/critical nature that has not been included in an upload to Debian before, I think it would be a good idea ask the maintainer to bump the urgency of the first upload to Debian as well. I hope this can avoid cases where people include earlier changelog entries (intentionally or by mistake), which causes the urgency to be inflated by earlier entries. If the older entries are really needed, the uploader should contact the release team to correct the age or manually fix the changes file. ~Niels [1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wu-ftpd/news/20110409T084856Z.html [2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpm/news/20110409T084713Z.html - -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii man-db 2.5.9-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-18 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 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.9-4 on-line manual pager - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNoCnqAAoJEAVLu599gGRCl7gP/1DpHM/SMVBvXSHcL8yrVp88 TxH2nqzZcfK95sMpwgK8WFN7xsdcI+GKPBqXbmX24CxBclwwYL3jDHdWoz59plMo rAs5VUXaQkhV15JcWghPGd4zyDzbn8d93/DoNctIHmnJaQCHbz+IpvDBOtaYt/yd wJu8zEPXHBaeZKc9BKlTOVEq2aDOixtGEp9lnox0Dr4EZfZQXmQ0Bw7hCjHz1ANF zDG9UJUs/6ccm4pIKb6tWUnOZbxKfeJyiVzBttHjWKVjAL12KEYdXbVcUquNBq+Y YlC2pRcjv/v1QyGrn2UkKna48kZLvdiJiXEnXhYztPvK4rXF0t//dHRXrfVLIbN2 EdNeDrbUxFbxo1c/nA1R/sefyTUj4iWg4M6Sl0wAczrJYbvMI11P0eSXzVA6Th7O TumRLpkZ1IxHsCfU9Se56dXWrMSKbve4wB7fS1qFM03sBjdm4Bxnt37ONPMMkhd7 hsf9rkG0xy8qM/uxyOZoCWF2SLz2PRs3wDmb+7gXtCcTjeWqvlx9YmIA3IFuPUnS H8lQB3Z3DbfsUw/mm9H03kC55iGLDOQ4zFsp2+wyKD3DRpi5n2/T1b/mn8dbyA+C yg0XZOuiROTPE20K9NN6QZHt245ouniLpexKvOrmSDWfv7AGhtXpoE6SBVToIAPg ELTAhn3weIRQ+W8XKNH7 =L80r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org