Bug#512738: lintian: should allow NMUs with "Non-maintainer upload with ACK from maintainer" changelog entries

[Evgeni Golov <sargentd@die-welt.net>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.1.6
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

currently lintian trows a "changelog-should-mention-nmu" when I do
 * Non-maintainer upload with ACK from maintainer.
in debian/changelog.
One can workaround this with
 * Non-maintainer upload, ACKed by maintainer.
but that's not optimal :)

The relevant check is in checks/nmu on the line 54/55:
$changelog_mentions_nmu = 1
 if (/\bnmu\b/i or /non-maintainer upload/i) and not /(ackno|\back\b|confir|incorporat)/i;

That should probably check the order of the two parts, maybe like this:
 if /(\bnmu\b|non-maintainer upload)/i 
  and not /(ackno|\back\b|confir|incorporat).*(\bnmu\b|non-maintainer upload)/i;

Regards
Evgeni

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-x31-1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.46-1               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.24              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.26-2               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-6               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libipc-run-perl     0.82-1               Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.37+dfsg-1          Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-3              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19            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         1.44-1.2   Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.2-3    on-line manual pager

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