Bug#940994: lintian: changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry false positive for versions like flatpak_1.2.5-0+deb10u1

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

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Hi Simon,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 1:27 AM Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> To accommodate the 0+deb10u1 convention, I think there should be an
> exception to this tag, preventing it from being emitted for revision
> numbers that "are based on" revision 0.

I struggled with something similar last week. There was some
discussion on IRC, but no resolution. The relevant code is here:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/checks/debian/changelog.pm#L141-149

Is your value of 'release' in d/changelog set to buster? Would it be
better to exempt direct uploads to past releases ($release ne
'unstable' && $release ne 'experimental')?

Kind regards
Felix