Bug#258604: lintian: Source NMU check needs tightening-up

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl>]

retitle 258604 [source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number] unclear description/tag name
thanks

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 06:13:32PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> W: asterisk source: source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number 42:1.0+20040614-2
> N:
> N:   A source NMU should have a Debian revision of '-x.x'. This is to
> N:   prevent stealing version numbers from the maintainer (and the -x.x.x
> N:   version numbers are reserved for binary-only NMU's).
> 
> WTF? This is a perfectly valid non-NMU version number.

If lintian gives this warning, the package as it is now is a NMU
according to the algorithm katie uses. That is, the most recent entry in
the changelog, aka the Changed-by, is not in maintainer or uploaders.

This is indeed a bit unclear, as this error is, more precisely:

| inconsisency in NMU'ness: according to katie's algorithm, this is a NMU,
| but the Debian revision part (-2 is this case) says it isn't. Either
| this is intentded as a NMU, choose a correct version number in that
| case. If this is _not_ intended as NMU, check that the last changelog
| entry occurs exactly the same as in debian/control

Also the name of the tag can better be changed... as it is also quite
often, as in this case, that the error is the other way around.

--Jeroen

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