16 May 2026 4:35:21 am Thorsten Glaser <[email protected]>: > 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.
I agree with Nilesh that the changelog entry should be a little more descriptive. It's not hard to add a few more words. >> 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. There are only a few people working on Lintian. There has been an RFH open for Lintian for years. And there are a lot of bugs against Lintian, because most people in Debian use it to check their packages. So yes, it does take a long time for a 1 or 2 contributors to get through such a large backlog. If this tag bothers you that much, disable pedantic output or use profiles to disable it: https://lintian.debian.org/manual/index.html#vendor-profiles -- Maytham
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