Bug#661990: lintian: Bad lintian doesn't warn me about an upload erroneously targetted at experimental

[Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.5
Severity: normal

Bad, lintian, bad!

It is able to tell us about spelling mistakes in upstream code.
It can be pedantic about descriptions starting with articles.
It can annoy you about tiny details regarding old dh_make templates.
It can test your patience, persuading you to add patch headers.
Interestingly, it can convince you to add a changelog entry stating that
you're moving a package from experimental to unstable.

HOWEVER, it didn't warn me about my gnome-orca upload was being uploaded
to experimental, even when the changelog said otherwise, and I ended up
feeling like an idiot. Bad, lintian, bad!

 gnome-orca (3.2.2-1) experimental; urgency=low

 [...]

   [ Jordi Mallach ]
   * New upstream release.
   * Upload to unstable.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gnome-orca/news/20120303T093222Z.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia, LC_CTYPE=ca_ES.UTF-8@valencia (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                       2.22-5
ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-1
ii  diffstat                       1.55-2
ii  file                           5.10-1
ii  gettext                        0.18.1.1-5
ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.25+b1
ii  libc-bin                       2.13-27
ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl                  0.31-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.16.1.2
ii  libemail-valid-perl            0.187-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                0.91-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
ii  libtimedate-perl               1.2000-1
ii  liburi-perl                    1.59-1
ii  locales                        2.13-27
ii  man-db                         2.6.1-1
ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-1.1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.14.2-7
ii  unzip                          6.0-5

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.16.1.2
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.69-1+b1
ii  libtext-template-perl  <none>
ii  man-db                 2.6.1-1
ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20110809-3

-- no debconf information