Bug#495370: lintian fails to report bad distribution in changelog
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 04:01:32PM -0300, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> I'm unhappy about lintian ignoring UNRELEASED as a distribution in the
> changelog file as a result of the change made in response to #382327.
>
> Intentionally changing the default behavior of lintian to not report a known
> error because "it's annoying during testing" makes no sense to me at all. If
> filtering this error is important to enough users, perhaps a new option would
> be appropriate as an alternative to changing the default?
>
> Please revert this change.
I honestly prefer having this behaviour over having yet another option
even it might not be the cleanest solution. I think in practise it works
reasonably well, since every other tool you will give the source package in
question will complain anyway (which the maintainer can of course
work around by changing the distribution manually in the .changes file,
but well...)
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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