Package: lintian
Version: 2.111.0
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
The description for Lintian tag ‘improbable-bug-number-in-closes’
currently reads:
The most recent changelog closes a bug numbered less than 2000.
While this is distantly possible, it's more likely a typo or a
placeholder value that mistakenly wasn't filled in.
That implies the tag will not match any bug number 2000 or higher.
That description is inaccurate and misleading. The condition currently
matches any bug number < 50004 (so, higher than the 2000 described);
and matches any bug number > 1000000 (the description does not mention
any upper limit).
I suggest this change to the description, to accurately represent the
condition:
-----
modified checks/changelog-file.desc
@@ -268,9 +268,10 @@ Ref: devref 6.3.4
Tag: improbable-bug-number-in-closes
Severity: normal
Certainty: possible
-Info: The most recent changelog closes a bug numbered less than 2000.
- While this is distantly possible, it's more likely a typo or a
- placeholder value that mistakenly wasn't filled in.
+Info: The most recent changelog closes a bug report with a number that
+ is very low or very high. While this is distantly possible, it's more
+ likely a typo, or a placeholder value that was mistakenly left
+ unchanged.
Tag: wrong-bug-number-in-closes
Severity: normal
-----
An improvement might be to have the description include the current
values from the data file ‘data/changelog-file/bugs-number’, but I
don't know whether Lintian tag descriptions can be dynamically
populated that way.
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Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>
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