Bug#541119: lintian: [checks/changelog-file] Please make it possible to mark very old entries as such
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> writes:
> 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?
Looking at the source for Parse::DebianChangelog, it looks like the best
solution is to add the line:
Old Changelog:
before the problematic portion at the end of the file. It will then
ignore that line and everything after it without you having to change
history by changing those entries.
Does that sound good? If so, I'll document it in the long description of
this Lintian tag.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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