[lintian] 01/01: Clarify wording in debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog to make the justification clearer. (Closes: #865882)
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Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Tue Jul 4 08:47:02 2017 +0100
Clarify wording in debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog to make the justification clearer. (Closes: #865882)
---
checks/rules.desc | 11 +++++++----
debian/changelog | 3 +++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/checks/rules.desc b/checks/rules.desc
index 4b75505..290e59e 100644
--- a/checks/rules.desc
+++ b/checks/rules.desc
@@ -242,8 +242,11 @@ Tag: debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog
Severity: wishlist
Certainty: possible
Info: The rules file appears to be parsing the output of dpkg-parsechangelog to
- determine the current package version name, version, timestamp, etc.
+ determine the current package version name, version, or timestamp, etc.
.
- Since dpkg 1.16.1, this may be able to be replaced by including the
- /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk file and using the DEB_{SOURCE,VERSION} or
- SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variables.
+ Since dpkg 1.16.1, this could be replaced by including the
+ /usr/share/dpkg/pkg-info.mk Makefile library and using the
+ DEB_{SOURCE,VERSION} or SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH variables.
+ .
+ Using this library is not only cleaner, it handles many corner-cases such
+ as binNMUs, epoch versions, etc.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 1ae15c6..88f2f44 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ lintian (2.5.52) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
I: to W:. See #829744 for more info.
+ [CL] Clarify wording in new-package-should-not-package-python2-module
to make the justification clearer.
+ * checks/rules.desc:
+ + [CL] Clarify wording in debian-rules-parses-dpkg-parsechangelog to make
+ the justification clearer. (Closes: #865882)
* commands/lintian.pm:
+ [NT] Attempt to clean up on SIGTERM (like with SIGINT).
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