Bug#865882: lintian: Why is debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog a wishlist?

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Guillem Jover wrote:

> > > Why is debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog a wishlist?
> > 
> > I'm a little confused by your question; are you asking why Lintian is
> > mentioning this in the first place? Or why it reports at with "wishlist"
> > severity? :)
> 
> Yeah, I guess both. :)

So, I suggested it because of the myriad ways people were parsing the
metadata from the debian/changelog, some of them buggy. Eg. they would
break on an epoch or a binNMU, etc. etc. Besides, if there is a nice
library, we might as well all standardise on using it?

(I plan to add more regexes, so tags in this area may make more sense
then. For example, where packages are manually sedding debian/changelog
directly.)

The severity was probably chosen because I was unsure on the number of
false positives it might generate.


Regards,

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