Your message dated Sat, 03 Feb 2018 03:54:02 +0530 with message-id <1517610242.989809.1257762616.4220a...@webmail.messagingengine.com> and subject line Re: lintian: NMU check should match on email and warn if name does not match has caused the Debian Bug report #820523, regarding lintian: NMU check should match on email and warn if name does not match to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: lintian Version: 2.5.38 Severity: wishlist debian/changelog is a partly automatically generated file, partly manually edited. I probably did something wrong to even notice this edge case, but still. Given a debian/changelog that ends with, for example: """ -- Hugues Morisset <[email protected]> Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:13:47 +0100 """ And given a debian/control that contains, among others: """ Maintainer: Hugues Morisset <[email protected]> """ Then lintian complains (correctly!) about the current version being a NMU, i.e., changelog-should-mention-nmu and source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number. For a Debian newbie, this is very confusing. To make it easier to resolve issues like this, I would like to "wish" for an *additional* warning message like this: """ The most recent changelog entry is from " Hugues Morisset <[email protected]>". The control file lists "Hugues Morisset <[email protected]>" as a maintainer. These count as different people only due to differing whitespace, even though the address is identical. If this dissociation is unintended, please correct the whitespace issue in the changelog. """ I'm horrible at designing warning messages, but I hope I could explain why, what, and how this is happening; and why it's pretty unintuitive. As indicated in the fictive warning message, I would suggest checking the "raw" email address of the changelog against the "raw" email address of each maintainer and uploader. If the address matches but the name doesn't, then the packager most definitely did not intend this. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25.1-3 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.60-1 ii file 1:5.25-2 ii gettext 0.19.6-1 ii hardening-includes 2.7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.53-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.3 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.196-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.69-1 ii man-db 2.7.3-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6 ii t1utils 1.38-4 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.3 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.20.2-6 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.25.1-3 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.3 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 pn libyaml-perl <none> -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, > […] I believe the problems raised for this bug have now been fixed, eg. we have a "extra-whitespace-around-name-in-changelog-trailer" tag to detect whitespace, the long description of "changelog-should-mention-nmu" contains: Maybe you didn't intend this upload to be a NMU, in that case, please double-check that the most recent entry in the changelog is byte-for-byte identical to the maintainer or one of the uploaders. If this is a local package (not intended for Debian), you can suppress this warning by putting "local" in the version number or "local package" on the first line of the changelog entry. etc. and we also canonicalize the email address in checks/nmu.pm. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` [email protected] / chris-lamb.co.uk `-
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