Bug#947052: lintian: Add check for binNMU changelog entries in source packages
Hi!
On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 19:07:04 -0800, Felix Lechner wrote:
> 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?
I'd change your algo a bit like this:
> for all changelog entries:
if version is binNMU and (is latest or previous is binNMU),
ignore
if version is binNMU and previous is not binNMU,
> tell user to delete entry
> if version does not indicate binNMU,
> check email address for validity.
Otherwise, yes!
Thanks,
Guillem
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