Bug#935070: [lintian] Tags are too similar
On Fri, 24 Jan 2020, Felix Lechner wrote:
> > - latest-debian-changelog-entry-reuses-existing-version checks that
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > - latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version checks that the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> As you point out, the former strips the epoch before comparing. It
> seemed to include the latter (and both tags had the same severity).
Does it?
> > PS: Personally I’m not negatively affected by removal of the latter,
> > it was always annoying for local backports, but it might have
> > saved someone else from a brown paper bag upload…
>
> Did you see a d/changelog that triggered the latter but not the former?
Yes: packagename (upstreamversion-1~wtf1)
followed by packagename (upstreamversion-1)
(or even ~bpo10+1, when there was not the word “backport” in the
changelog text)
bye,
//mirabilos
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