Bug#501523: lintian: avoid diagnostics intended for NMUs when processing local-use packages
Package: lintian
Version: 2.0.0
Severity: wishlist
I just built myself a local package of a new upstream version of mercurial,
since I need it now and the freeze means it's unlikely to show up in unstable
soon. And then I ran lintian on it, because I'm that kind of OCD. It
issued two warnings: changelog-should-mention-nmu and
source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number.
The top entry in the change log looks like this:
mercurial (1.0.2-0~local1) unstable; urgency=low
* Local package of mercurial 1.0.2.
- patches/CVE-2008-4297 incorporated upstream.
- patches/backport__CVE-2008-2942-fix incorporated upstream.
- patches/backport__svn1.5-fix incorporated upstream.
- patches/deb_specific__use_sensible-editor rediffed.
-- Zack Weinberg <zack@mrtock.san.rr.com> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:56:35 -0700
May I suggest that the presence of the word 'local' in the version number,
and/or the phrase 'local package' in the change log entry, should suppress
these two warnings, since IMO it is obvious that this is not a malformed
NMU?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools
ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-15 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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