Bug#541119: lintian: [checks/changelog-file] Please make it possible to mark very old entries as such

[Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.13
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

while working on updating at's packaging, I stumbled upon the following
items in its changelog. Unfortunately, that dates back to before ddc@
was created (or archived, for what I see), so I have no idea who the
author was, and what the date was. Could it be possible to have some
kind of token/placeholder for such entries? I could add a lintian
override to get rid of those messages on every lintian check, but I
guess some solution could be chosen to mark very old entries as such
without having to resort to lintian overrides. What do you think?

Excerpt:
| at (3.1.2-2) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * ../at_3.1.2-2_i386.deb
|   * adapted aj's /etc/init.d/atd (bug #8501)
|   * Fix bug #8495 (exit preinst cleanly when no /etc/crontab)
|   * Fix bug #7936 (for real this time)
| 
| at (3.1.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * ../at_3.1.2-1_i386.deb
|   * Fixed bug #8189 (prerm/postrm failure).
|   * New "upstream" version.
| 
| at (3.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * ../at_3.1-1_i386.deb
|   * Fixed bug #7936 and #7808
| 
| at (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
| 
|   * ../at_3.0-1_i386.deb
|   * Initial Release.
| 
|  -- Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>  Thu, 20 Feb 1997 17:33:12 +0100

Mraw,
KiBi.