Bug#970247: lintian: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week false negative regression
Package: lintian
Version: 2.94.0
Severity: normal
Hi,
https://salsa.debian.org/lynx-team/lynx/-/merge_requests/1 by
@janitor-bot made me aware of two dates in lynx's debian/changelog (as
of the just uploaded 2.9.0dev.6-1) having a wrong week day. According to
"ccal" these weekdays are indeed wrong. (See below.)
But neither the current Lintian in unstable (2.94.0) nor the lintian
version in Buster (2.15.0) emits that tag. What I see on Debian
Unstable:
$ lintian /var/cache/pbuilder/result/lynx_2.9.0dev.6-1_amd64.changes
I: lynx source: patch-not-forwarded-upstream debian/patches/21_do_not_strip_-g.diff
I: lynx source: patch-not-forwarded-upstream debian/patches/30_build_path_in_binary.diff
I: lynx source: upstream-metadata-missing-repository
$ egrep -v '^#|^$' ~/.lintianrc
display-experimental = yes
display-level = >=pedantic
color = always
suppress-tags=debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk
$
But some lintian version in between (around 2020-05-09) must have
emitted it twice, otherwise lintian-brush/Lintian-Janitor wouldn't have
found it and fixed it in the above mentioned merge request.
Manually checking the date lines mentioned in the merge request confirms
that the weekdays are indeed wrong:
-- Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org> Sun, 19 Dec 2009 20:04:44 +0900
$ ccal 12 2009
December 2009
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31
(2009-12-19 was a Sunday)
-- Atsuhito KOHDA <kohda@debian.org> Thu, 10 May 2004 13:22:29 +0900
$ ccal 5 2004
May 2004
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31
(2004-05-10 was a Monday.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.7.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.35-3
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii diffstat 1.63-1
ii dpkg 1.20.5
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.5
ii file 1:5.38-5
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-10
ii gpg 2.2.20-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b3
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b5
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.24-1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.23-1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.5
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b2
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004002-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmoo-perl 2.004000-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.114-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b6
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1
ii libtext-glob-perl 0.11-1
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b7
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b2
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-1
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.010006-1
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-2
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1
ii lzip 1.21-8
ii lzop 1.04-1
ii man-db 2.9.3-2
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.3-4
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-25
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.35-3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.59-1
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