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



On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:29:55PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Jeroen van Wolffelaar:
> > > 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.
> > 
> Hmmm... Oh, I seem to have used different email addresses in control vs.
> changelog. *Sigh*.

Well, that's _exactly_ why one uses tools like lintian -- to warn you
for mistakes like this one *g*.

Still, the tag could be more clear about this, you're not the first one
to be confused by this issue -- so something must be improved.

--Jeroen

-- 
Jeroen van Wolffelaar
Jeroen@wolffelaar.nl (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357)
http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl

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