Bug#621840: lintian: please warning when urgency in changes does not match the changelog
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.0~rc2
Severity: wishlist
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Hi
Looking at two uploads today ([1], [2]) I noticed that the urgency
of the newest entry of the changelog was low, but the changes had
urgency high or critical. The high/critical urgency was most likely
inherited from earlier entries.
If the package is truly includes uploads of high/critical nature that
has not been included in an upload to Debian before, I think it would
be a good idea ask the maintainer to bump the urgency of the first
upload to Debian as well.
I hope this can avoid cases where people include earlier changelog
entries (intentionally or by mistake), which causes the urgency to be
inflated by earlier entries.
If the older entries are really needed, the uploader should contact
the release team to correct the age or manually fix the changes file.
~Niels
[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wu-ftpd/news/20110409T084856Z.html
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gpm/news/20110409T084713Z.html
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-16 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.54-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.8.10 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.04-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24+b1 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.184-1 Perl module for checking the valid
ii libipc-run-perl 0.89-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2.1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat
ii liburi-perl 1.58-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii man-db 2.5.9-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-18 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 1.45-2 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.9-4 on-line manual pager
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