Bug#502858: aptitude: changelog entry malformed
Hi Ben, On 08/10/20 22:04 +1100, Ben Finney said ... Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1lenny1 Severity: serious Justification: violates Policy §4.4 This part of the policy is a should and not a must. I'll leave it to the package maintainer, but I suppose this bug is not serious. It would be made must (post #489460 which is not yet released). A malformed changelog entry can cause problems for any tools attempting to extract structured information from that changelog. The Since the above is a should and not a must, tools doing this must be prepared [1] to encounter bad entries. [1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/aptitude/current/changelog#versionversion0.4.11.9-1lenny1 One less RC bug if you or Daniel downgrade this :-) Cheers, Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://appaji.net/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#502858: aptitude: changelog entry malformed
Package: aptitude Version: 0.4.11.9-1lenny1 Severity: serious Justification: violates Policy §4.4 The changelog for ‘aptitude’ contains a bad entry for version ‘0.4.11.9-1lenny1’: = aptitude (0.4.11.9-1lenny1) testing-proposed-updates; urgency=low * Upload to testing-proposed-updates. -- = The last line of that entry is malformed: Debian Policy §4.4 specifies that every changelog entry should end with a line of the form: = -- maintainer name email address[two spaces] date = A malformed changelog entry can cause problems for any tools attempting to extract structured information from that changelog. The changelog should be fixed by completing the information as above, and a new version uploaded. -- \ “The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in | `\the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.” | _o__)—Henry L. Mencken | Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
