On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:01:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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.
FWIW, Parse::DebianChangelog tries to identify the start of old legacy entries and stops parsing there. In this case however there is really no sign whatsoever that the format might change. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
