[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.2.13-39-ge27f5f3
The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 850d8ad594997597776e78f33c13e6ed854e1592
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat Aug 15 15:35:35 2009 -0700
Document how to ignore legacy changelog entries
* checks/changelog-file.desc:
+ [RA] Document the "Old Changelog" way of marking historic changelog
entries that shouldn't be syntax-checked in the long description for
syntax-error-in-debian-changelog. (Closes: #541119)
diff --git a/checks/changelog-file.desc b/checks/changelog-file.desc
index 3aee52a..ad601ca 100644
--- a/checks/changelog-file.desc
+++ b/checks/changelog-file.desc
@@ -215,7 +215,14 @@ Info: The previous version of this package had a distribution of
Tag: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog
Severity: normal
Certainty: possible
-Info: While parsing the Debian changelog, a syntax error was found.
+Info: While parsing the Debian changelog, a syntax error was found. If
+ you have old changelog entries that don't follow the current syntax but
+ that you want to keep as-is for the historical record, add the line:
+ .
+ Old Changelog:
+ .
+ with no leading whitespace before the legacy entries. This line and
+ everything after it will be ignored.
Ref: policy 4.4
Tag: syntax-error-in-debian-news-file
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e6b68c9..8314846 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ lintian (2.2.14) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- patch-system-but-no-source-readme
- possible-documentation-but-no-doc-base-registration
+ * checks/changelog-file.desc:
+ + [RA] Document the "Old Changelog" way of marking historic changelog
+ entries that shouldn't be syntax-checked in the long description for
+ syntax-error-in-debian-changelog. (Closes: #541119)
* checks/debconf:
+ [CW] Permit Help: in .templates files, which is supported as of
cdebconf 0.143 and used in the installer.
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