Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For a brief period of time, the way to close a bug on package upload was > to add a "closes" header to the changelog entry, e.g.:
> nqc (2.0.2-2) unstable; closes=50669; urgency=low > * New upstream documentation. Fixes Bug#50669. Thanks to Jim Studt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for reporting this. > -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:11:32 -0500 > Modern lintian complains about this, with > syntax-error-in-debian-changelog "unknown key-value key Closes - copying > to XS-Closes". I'm not eager to "change history" by deleting the closes > keyword or by changing the entry to use the newer "Closes: #xyz" syntax, > although I certainly could do so. Could lintian be changed to accept > this keyword? Perhaps it could just accept it for changelog entries > before some date. Could you report this as a bug against libparse-debianchangelog-perl? That's the package that does the syntax checking of the changelog file rather than lintian itself. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
