Bug#560149: lintian: disable latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date when UNRELEASED
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.18
Severity: normal
I regularly get this warning on my packages during development because
the latest changelog entry has been created before some other bug-fix only
release of the former stable release that I merged into the current
development release.
Simple case with dpkg, we release 1.15.5, we open 1.15.6 in master, we
release a bugfix 1.15.5.1 on a sib branch, we merge that branch in master
and boom we have that annoying warning:
W: dpkg: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date
Thus I suggest to disable this warning when the distribution is currently
set to UNRELEASED because the timestamp of the changelog entry is reset
at release time anyway.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (150, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.4 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-4 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.50-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
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