Bug#889816: lintian: Complain when epoch has been bumped but upstream version did not go backwards

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 889816 + pending
thanks

Hi Raphael,

> >  "W: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version"
> > 
> > Do you think it's still worth adding (essentially) an "E:" version
> > of this? I would tend to be in favour, given that at least I did not
> > see this warning when uploading "that" Django version.
> 
> I think this warning was not in place yet when you made that mistake.

This warning was added in 2007 so it's likely I just missed it. Anyway,
I have implemented this in Git, pending upload:

  https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/bb13a144e8b2b4326dc5a1d65bf7a1b8f1881247

> Still I think that [latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version]
> was not correctly implemented. It should really ensure that […]

(If so, could you clone and/or re-file etc. with concrete examples?)


Best wishes,

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