On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Steve Langasek <steve.langa...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:04:35PM -0800, Evan Broder wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdr...@ubuntu.com> wrote: >> > Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2011, 17:38 -0800 schrieb Evan Broder: >> >> If there is more that lintian.uw.o could be doing for you, please let me >> >> know! > >> > Thanks for setting this service up. > >> > I compared my profiles [1] and [2] and discovered false positive >> > results: debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version and >> > non-standard-file-perm > >> Thanks for pointing these out. I believe there is an explanation for >> both of them; adjusting to correct for it may be difficult, though. > >> > debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version complains about normal Debian >> > changelog entry versions. > >> debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version is a check on the binary >> package, so it's comparing those version numbers against the changelog >> in the binary package. Starting with natty, pkgbinarymangler strips >> all but the 10 most recent changelog entries. In all cases, the >> versions lintian is complaining about are not included in the shrunk >> changelog. > >> I'm not sure what to do with that - maybe pkgbinarymangler should >> remove NEWS entries not included in the shrunk changelog? > > This would negatively impact the purpose of said NEWS files, which is to > notify users of changes in the software since the previous version they had > installed. There's absolutely no guarantee that the relevant news was > introduced within the last 10 most recent uploads - especially if the user > is doing an LTS->LTS upgrade. > > I'd rather we suppress (or otherwise ignore) this warning instead.
Fair enough. That seems reasonable to me. I've now suppressed debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version in the profile that I use when generating the reports, and removed past instances of the tag from our records. It should update within an hour or so. - Evan -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
