Your message dated Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:53:11 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#898759: should report UNRELEASED in a NEWS.Debian file
has caused the Debian Bug report #898759,
regarding should report UNRELEASED in a NEWS.Debian file
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.86
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

lintian should report if the NEWS.Debian file contains UNRELEASED in the
top line as a warning.

Greetings
Marc


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.8-zgsrv20080 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.30-19
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1+b1
ii  dpkg                              1.19.0.5+b1
ii  file                              1:5.33-2
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              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.99-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1+b3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.2-3
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                              5.26.2-3
ii  t1utils                           1.41-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl  <none>

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.19.0.5
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b2
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.53-1

-- no debconf information

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Chris Lamb wrote:

> > > lintian should report if the NEWS.Debian file contains UNRELEASED in the
> > > top line as a warning.
> > 
> > Does Lintian not do this already? For example:
> > 
> > https://lintian.debian.org/tags/debian-news-entry-has-strange-distribution.html
> > 
> > We also check for mismatches in the distribution and priority between
> > debian/changelog.
> 
> Gentle ping on this? :)

I'm going to go-ahead and close this; feel free to re-open if I am
mistaken re. UNRELEASED.  ^


Regards,

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