Re: getting rid of the .changes requirements

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-08-13 22:02, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> writes:
> 
>> I think to everyone who spends 5 minutes to read the docs,
>> adding --debbuildopts '-sa -v0.1-2' is easy enough, and this
>> requirement is reasonable. I know I read d-d-changes to find out
>> what’s going on often enough myself.
> 
> The problem that I have is that I build packages all the time, and
> for most of them I'm uploading to unstable and don't ever use the
> -v flag. Adding the -v flag is easy enough; *remembering* to add
> the -v flag is a lot harder.
> 
> [...]

So, someone could write a third-party Lintian check to check for a
missing -v in the changes file for use with backports[1]?

~Niels

[1] Technically, it would check for only having "one" entry, which
seems to be a fairly reliable indicator of a problem (but can have
false-negatives).