Bug#714437: lintian: distribution target check not case-sensitive

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-06-29 12:44, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> Package: lintian Version: 2.5.13 Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer, running lintian with those flags: lintian
> --pedantic -E --color auto -i -I it does not generate any warning
> or error if the target is "UNSTABLE" rather than "unstable" in
> debian/changelog.
> 
> However the checks performed automatically on mentors issue such an
> error.
> 
> So I believe it would be better to have the same set of errors also
> in the local version, to avoid extra uploads.
> 
> Thanks [...]

What does the resulting .changes file use in its "Distribution"-field?
 I suspect dpkg might normalise the value because Lintian's check does
appear to be case sensitive but it looks only at the value in the
.changes file.

~Niels