Bug#423171: possible-missing-colon-in-closes should not check ancient entires

[Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>]

On Thursday 10 May 2007 17:28, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I suggest to only check the topmost changelog entry, as some other tests
> > already do aswell if I remember correctly.
>
> None that I could find, and I couldn't see a way of doing that without
> some structural changes, although I could look again. 

This was only from the top of my head, so I could be mistaken.

> However, it's not  correct that only the top-most changelog entries are
>relevant.

That's true in some cases, and indeed the .changes file might address that. 
But I wonder whether there will be many more "false positives", i.e. 
many-year-old changelog entries being flagged, than bugs that are missed in 
those cases. At least I would see flagging a non-current changelog entry that 
way as a false positive.

What course of action do you suggest? Fix the changelog retroactively?


thanks,
Thijs