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Bug#947052: lintian: Add check for binNMU changelog entries in source packages



Hi Guillem,

On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 6:51 PM Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I've already noticed at least two instances of maintainers fixing email
> addresses due to debian-changelog-file-contains-invalid-email-address,
> for binNMU entries in debian/changelog's in source packages.
>
> So it seems counterproductive to emit the above tag, when these
> entries should instead be removed. :)

Just to clarify
Is this what you want me to do?

for all changelog entries:
if version indicates binNMU,
    tell user to delete entry
if version does not indicate binNMU,
    check email address for validity.

Kind regards
Felix


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