Nilesh Patra dixit:
>> The changelog in question is:
You truncated my quote, though.
>> * New upstream release
>> * CVEs
This is continued in a list:
- CVE-1234-56789
- …
>The point of the tag is to prevent maintainers from writing
>non-descriptive entries. If this does not suit your use-case, you may
>override it.
The entry is longer than lintian thinks it is because it fails
to take line continuations into account. This is clearly a bug
in lintian.
>Removal of this tag would be a worse option. Hence, wontfix.
Yeah, lintian’s use has been greatly reduced by all the useless
maintainer churn, FPs and corresponding attitude, as well as
long time to fix for even recognised bugs.
Disappointed, but not surprised,
//mirabilos
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(gnutls can also be used, but if you are compiling lynx for your own use,
there is no reason to consider using that package)
-- Thomas E. Dickey on the Lynx mailing list, about OpenSSL
