Bug#946126: lintian: Please complain about debian/NEWS.Debian
Package: lintian
Version: 2.39.0
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
unison (2.48.4-3) was released without an important note in the NEWS file.
The note was in the package source, but not included in the binary package.
See bug 946041.
The reason for this appears to be longstanding, see bug 429510.
Perhaps lintian could warn about this?
If debian/NEWS.Debian exists, remind the packager that the file should
be called debian/NEWS. Not sure if debian/<package>.NEWS is allowed.
There may already be a similar check for debian/[README|TODO].Debian
This issue may go away with a later debhelper compatibility level
but since it's been around since 2007, perhaps it's worth a lintian rule.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.11
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (990, 'oldstable'), (500, 'oldstable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-11-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.28-5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.18.25
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.25
ii file 1:5.30-1+deb9u3
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2+deb9u1
ii gnupg [gpg] 2.1.18-8~deb9u4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1+deb9u1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.55-1+b2
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.44-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.35-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-2+b7
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.25
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1~bpo9+1
ii libio-async-perl 0.71-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1+deb9u1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-2
ii libmoo-perl 2.002005-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.100-1
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1-3+deb9u5
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.28-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.000005-1
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.22-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.24.1-3+deb9u5
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
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