Bug#878838: lintian: Check for bad-distribution in debian/changelog too

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Jeremy,

> > However, unless I'm missing something this would mean that every
> > time you built a package locally as part of regular development it
> > would emit this tag.
> 
> I don't see that as a problem, but I really don't like seeing packages
> with UNRELEASED changelogs in Debian.

Thanks for your input. :)  I, too, do not like seeing packages in the
archive with UNRELEASED distributions.

However, many developers have a workflow where they develop with their
changelog set to UNRELEASED and check that the resulting builds are
"Lintian clean" before setting this to unstable and then uploading.

As this would emit a tag in this situation and whilst they could ignore
it, ensuring Lintian's output does not get become ignored is an important
and critical part of its maintainership.

(Is there some way we can detect the cowbuilder use-case? I do not use
that tool so don't know what the true situation is there.)


Regards,

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