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



Hi,

Jeroen van Wolffelaar:
> > 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.
> 
Ah, OK. So this happens every time somebody takes over a package.
I have been doing that a lot, lately.

You might want to grep for /new maintainer/ in the changelog entry:
don't report a problem if that text is present.

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Matthias Urlichs   |   {M:U} IT Design @ m-u-it.de   |  smurf@smurf.noris.de

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