Bug#514853: lintian: "Distribution" field conforming to standard is not accepted

["Kiss Gabor (Bitman)" <kissg@ssg.ki.iif.hu>]

> That section of Policy also claims that "frozen" is a valid distribution and
> that one can't upload to "testing" (although it could be argue that tpu isn't
> testing), so it could possibly do with some attention. :-/
> 
> Whilst "testing stable" is technically valid, I'm not entirely sure that all
> parts of the archive software would do the right thing with such a package.

Actually I'm unable to find a pair of distributions that would be accepted:

E: kmt_0.5-2_i386.changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file stable unstable
E: kmt_0.5-2_i386.changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file stable experimental
E: kmt_0.5-2_i386.changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable experimental
E: kmt_0.5-2_i386.changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable frozen

Could you show a working example please?

Code snippet from /usr/bin/lintian:

                } elsif (! (($data->{distribution} eq 'stable')
                         or ($data->{distribution} eq 'testing')
                         or ($data->{distribution} eq 'unstable')
                         or ($data->{distribution} eq 'experimental')
                         or ($data->{distribution} =~ /\w+-backports/)
                         or ($data->{distribution} =~ /\w+-proposed-updates/)
                         or ($data->{distribution} =~ /\w+-security/))
                        ) {
                    # bad distribution entry
                    tag("bad-distribution-in-changes-file",
                        $data->{distribution});
                }

It seems that this elsif statement does NOT conform with Debian Policy Manual.
It accepts this:
	Distribution: no-such-distro-backports foo bar
but refuses reasonable list of distributions.

Regards

Gabor