Bug#462586: lintian: Please don't no-description-in-changes-file for source-only .changes
clone 462586 -1
reassign -1 debian-policy
retitle -1 Description doesn't make sense (and dpkg no longer generates it) for source-only *.changes files
severity -1 normal
thanks
Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.42
> Severity: wishlist
>
> since dpkg-dev is moving quite quickly these days, I postponed its
> upgrade, and only hit today the following:
> | E: graphviz_2.16.1-1_source.changes: no-description-in-changes-file
>
> Since dpkg/1.14.16, we have:
> | * Some code refactoring on dpkg-genchanges and bug fixes in the generation
> | of the Description: field. As a result, source only uploads will no more
> | have Description fields.
>
> I presume it'dbe safe to turn off this check when checking a source-only
> upload (if you don't detect source-only uploads yet, I guess that the
> /_source.changes$/ pattern should do the job.
Policy 5.5 says that Description is mandatory for all *.changes files,
which is why the lintian tag. However, I agree that Description doesn't
make much sense for source-only uploads, since there are no individual
package descriptions in that case to lift into it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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