Re: lintian versus Closes in changelog headers
Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> writes:
> For a brief period of time, the way to close a bug on package upload was
> to add a "closes" header to the changelog entry, e.g.:
> nqc (2.0.2-2) unstable; closes=50669; urgency=low
> * New upstream documentation. Fixes Bug#50669. Thanks to Jim Studt
> <jim@federated.com> for reporting this.
> -- Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org> Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:11:32 -0500
> Modern lintian complains about this, with
> syntax-error-in-debian-changelog "unknown key-value key Closes - copying
> to XS-Closes". I'm not eager to "change history" by deleting the closes
> keyword or by changing the entry to use the newer "Closes: #xyz" syntax,
> although I certainly could do so. Could lintian be changed to accept
> this keyword? Perhaps it could just accept it for changelog entries
> before some date.
Could you report this as a bug against libparse-debianchangelog-perl?
That's the package that does the syntax checking of the changelog file
rather than lintian itself.
Thanks!
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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