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

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Ben,

> 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 :-)

Exactly; I was pointing it out to myself or the "next person" who also perhaps didn't immediately spot all that whitespace.

> > 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?

A quick glance at src:dpkg's changelog suggests #843248 is a good
place to start but I'll have to redirect you to the dpkg
maintainers on this angle.


Regards,

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