[lintian] 01/01: Expand the rationale for the latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date tag to mention possible implications for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH/reproducible builds.

[Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>]

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commit 44be997c54e737f06a516b99af1ed41f583d64c3
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jul 15 19:58:53 2017 +0100

    Expand the rationale for the latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date tag to mention possible implications for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH/reproducible builds.
---
 checks/changelog-file.desc | 4 ++++
 debian/changelog           | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/checks/changelog-file.desc b/checks/changelog-file.desc
index 73a0e93..7eb17f3 100644
--- a/checks/changelog-file.desc
+++ b/checks/changelog-file.desc
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ Severity: normal
 Certainty: certain
 Info: The latest Debian changelog entry has either the same or even an
  older date as the entry before.
+ .
+ This can result in subtle bugs due to the <tt>SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</tt>
+ environment variable being the same between the older and newer
+ versions.
 
 Tag: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version
 Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index cc52719..1a24833 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ lintian (2.5.52) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
     + [NT] New check by Petter Reinholdtsen.
   * checks/changelog-file.desc:
     + [AB] Fix typo "%gt;" vs "&gt;".
+    + [CL] Expand the rationale for the
+      latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date tag to mention
+      possible implications for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH/reproducible builds.
   * checks/control-file.pm:
     + [NT] Remove check for missing versioned build-depends for dpkg
       and debhlper when using Build-Profiles.  The necessary versions

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