Bug#586816: drop check for blank line after NEWS.Debian entry
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.1
Severity: normal
Lintian issues an informational item (taken from http://lintian.debian.org/):
There appears to be no blank line after the most recent NEWS.Debian entry.
The current apt-listchanges takes the blank that separates entries for
different packages from the blank line following the trailer line of each
NEWS.Debian file. This means that unless there is a blank line after an
entry, it may be displayed to the user without a blank line between it and
entries from other packages. Please add a blank line (which, if this is
the only entry in the file, may mean adding a trailing blank line).
This is unbelievable. Should we modify several hundred source packages
just because apt-listchanges cannot properly display NEWS files? If this
is an issue than it should be fixed in apt-listchanges, and not by a
workaround in source packages!
-Ralf.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-11 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18-1 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 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.54-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-1 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-13 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 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager
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