Bug#935070: [lintian] Tags are too similar
Hi Thorsten,
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 6:50 AM Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> wrote:
>
> - latest-debian-changelog-entry-reuses-existing-version checks that
> the version without the epoch is never reused, for the archive and
> snapshots to be consistent (as the epoch is not used in filenames)
>
> - latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version checks that the
> upload does not have a smaller (or equal) version number to the
> previous upload except in backports, to ensure that it’ll be newer
> and nobody forgot a version increment before uploading
As you point out, the former strips the epoch before comparing. It
seemed to include the latter (and both tags had the same severity).
> PS: Personally I’m not negatively affected by removal of the latter,
> it was always annoying for local backports, but it might have
> saved someone else from a brown paper bag upload…
Did you see a d/changelog that triggered the latter but not the former?
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
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