Bug#920184: lintian: incorrectly parses an unfinalised changelog entry

["Ben Finney" <bignose@debian.org>]

On 22-Jan-2019, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Ben,
> 
> > ipsum (3.4.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> > 
> >   * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
> >   * Cras in sem consequat, consectetur ligula ac, volutpat nulla.
> > 
> >  --
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> (NB. this bit is missing; the first time I saw your report I didn't
> see this and almost pinged you back with a "huh?" …!)

Yes, that is what constitutes an unfinalised changelog entry: no
maintainer or date value in the closing line.

I'm not sure what the NB refers to; that part of the changelog entry
is exactly the difference I was pointing out. So we both seem to be
directing each other's attention to the same thing :-)

> Anyway, fixed in Git, pending upload:

Thanks.

> I don't believe Lintian should silence this and defer to whatever
> happens to be reporting this (likely libdpkg-perl) […]

My Perl knowledge is too weak to debug this, so how would I diagnose
where this behaviour in changelog parsing originates?

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Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>