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



On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:00:52PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> 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.

Err, no, on maintainer change, you also put yourself in
debian/control... because, after all, you take over the package. If
you're not doing so, you're doing something wrong, and still are
performing a NMU.

--Jeroen

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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