On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 08:23:08PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > I am working on a package that triggers the Lintian tag > ‘debian-news-entry-without-blank-line’. This prompted me to look > for a formal description of the format of NEWS.Debian. The problem > is: > > - It is not documented in the Policy that changelogs must finish by an empty > line (and NEWS.Debian files are not mentionned at all),
NEWS.Debian is supposed to be in the same format as changelog.Debian. > - The Developer's Reference recommends to use dpkg-parsechangelog, and gives > an example that does not include a trailing white line, which is parsed > without warnings by dpkg-parsechangelog. apt-listchanges is priority standard and dpkg-dev is priority optional, so apt-listchanges cannot use dpkg-parsechangelog. Beside devref is not normative. > - Lintian motivates its tag by the behaviour of apt-listchanges, but is > apt-listchanges normative for NEWS.Debian, or is it just a consumer of it? Historically, NEWS.Debian was introduced to be used by apt-listchanges. Since NEWS.Debian is not mentionned in policy, lintian is correct in requesting that NEWS.Debian follows the format required by apt-listchanges. Whether this is a bug in apt-listchanges is a different question. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100523114152.ge25...@yellowpig
