Bug#430354: lintian: Please support historical changelogs
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:01:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Andrew Pollock <apollock@debian.org> writes:
> > The dhcp3 source package has one malformed (by current standards)
> > changelog entry (the very first one). I learned at Debconf, that the
> > format wasn't always defined, so I'm assuming this entry is from that
> > era.
> > It'd be nice not to get Lintian complaints about it.
>
> This is somewhat difficult to fix just because of how changelog checking
> is implemented, but it also raises questions of how far back lintian
> should check and when it should start ignoring problems. I'm guessing
> that changing this may require changes to the Perl module we use to parse
> changelogs as well.
FWIW, Parse::DebianChangelog tries to identify the start of old legacy
entries and stops parsing there. In this case however there is really no
sign whatsoever that the format might change.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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