Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.28 > Severity: wishlist
> The dhcp3 source package has one malformed (by current standards) > changelog entry (the very first one). I learned at Debconf, that the > format wasn't always defined, so I'm assuming this entry is from that > era. > It'd be nice not to get Lintian complaints about it. This is somewhat difficult to fix just because of how changelog checking is implemented, but it also raises questions of how far back lintian should check and when it should start ignoring problems. I'm guessing that changing this may require changes to the Perl module we use to parse changelogs as well. Hm. The other issue here is that various things in Debian want to automatically parse changelog files, including historic entries. For example, packages.debian.org also complains about the changelog for the last entry in dhcp3 (it uses the same Perl module). If I were you, I'd just add a closing line to that first changelog entry with the same information as the next entry as an approximation (unless you know the actual date). Looking at the last few entries in the changelog, I'm guessing that this wouldn't be the first time that someone did that; I doubt that 0.5.9-1 and 0.5.7-1 were truly released in the exact same second. I can understand the aversion to changing historic information, though. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
