Bug#540294: lintian: Check if Vcs field and distribution in changelog match
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@ubuntu.com> writes:
> From time to time I see a package that was uploaded to experimental but
> its Vcs- fields point to the unstable branch, or the other way round.
>
> I think it would be nice to try to catch these cases. For example if the
> field contains 'experimental', but the distribution is unstable, it's
> probably wrong.
Do you mean by contacting the remote VCS, checking out the source there,
and parsing it to see what distribution it corresponds to? Or something
simpler? I'm not sure that I understand. An example would be great.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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