Package: lintian Version: 2.5.91 Severity: wishlist I recently saw a changelog entry (quoted below) for a Perl team package where several contributors to that version had their names mentioned multiple times with one or more changes below each instance of their name. This made the changelog harder to read. I think it would be useful for lintian to emit a pedantic or info-level warning for duplicate contributor information in the latest changelog entry.
Earlier changelog entries are historical information and probably not
worth fixing but the latest one will presumably be the entry being
prepared before upload. In order to ignore all the existing entries on
lintian.d.o, this check could be applied only to UNRELEASED entries.
libdigest-hmac-perl (1.03+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Team upload
[ Ansgar Burchardt ]
* debian/control: Convert Vcs-* fields to Git.
[ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* debian/copyright: Replace DEP5 Format-Specification URL from
svn.debian.org to anonscm.debian.org URL.
[ gregor herrmann ]
* debian/control: update {versioned,alternative} (build) dependencies.
[ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* Change Vcs-Git to canonical URI (git://anonscm.debian.org)
* Change search.cpan.org based URIs to metacpan.org based URIs
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Update debian/repack.stub.
[ Axel Beckert ]
* debian/copyright: migrate pre-1.0 format to 1.0 using "cme fix dpkg-
copyright"
[ gregor herrmann ]
* Strip trailing slash from metacpan URLs.
[ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* Update Vcs-Browser URL to cgit web frontend
* debian/control: Use HTTPS transport protocol for Vcs-Git URI
[ gregor herrmann ]
* debian/copyright: change Copyright-Format 1.0 URL to HTTPS.
* Switch repackaging framework to Files-Excluded method.
* Remove Carlo Segre from Uploaders. Thanks for your work!
* Remove Zak B. Elep from Uploaders on request of the MIA team
(Closes: #863529)
[ Salvatore Bonaccorso ]
* Update Vcs-* headers for switch to salsa.debian.org
[ Florian Schlichting ]
* Bump dh compat to level 11
* Declare compliance with Debian Policy 4.1.4
-- Florian Schlichting <f...@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jun 2018 21:53:39 +0200
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800,
'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700,
'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_AU.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 2.30.90.20180627-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1
ii file 1:5.33-3
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6+b1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.74-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.3-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-6
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.30.90.20180627-1
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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