Package: lintian Severity: wishlist Recently I noticed a package enter Debian with a changelog something like below. The only other change to the package was in the Maintainer field in debian/control. Rebuilds that only change the maintainer are a waste of buildd time, mirror sync bandwith and snapshot.d.o disk space and should be discouraged. It would be nice if lintian could detect these sort of uploads and have them rejected. Probably the check should work by matching the latest Debian changelog entry against the template below, allowing for inclusion or not of the bug closing and allowing for varying source package name, version, suite (unstable & experimental), uploader and date.
something (1.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium * New maintainer. (Closes: #123456) -- Some One <some....@example.com> Sat, 16 Jun 2020 11:51:11 +0800 -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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