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



Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (11/08/2009):
> 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.

Sure!

I was really reluctant to modifying old changelog entries, especially
with missing info; that solution is really nice! Thanks. :)

Mraw,
KiBi.

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