On Saturday, October 29, 2011 03:15:46 PM Russ Allbery wrote: > Paul Elliott <pelliott@blackpatchpanel.com> writes: > > Before I filed an ITP the upstream was his own maintainer distributing > > outside of debian. His changelog uses his web page instead of his email > > address. > > > > Naturally, this results in lintian error maintainer-address-malformed. > > > > How do I keep the history without changing what the previous maintainer > > did? > > Lintian will ignore all changelog entries below the line: > > Old Changelog: > > with no leading whitespace in the changelog file. This is intended to > allow preservation of historic entries that are not formatted correctly > for the current standard. It did not work! I added "^Old Changelog:" (^ denotes beginning of line), and I still got maintainer-address-malformed comming from a location in the changelog file after the line begining with "Old Changelog:". Old Changelog: is documented in the section for syntax-error-in-debian-changelog perhaps it only works for syntax errors? Is this a bug or a feature? -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 pelliott@BlackPatchPanel.com PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.free.blackpatchpanel.com/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117
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