Bug#971975: lintian: Warn about four-letter weekday abbreviations in debian/changelog entry signatures (should be three-letter)
Hi!
On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 23:44:19 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.97.0
> Severity: wishlist
> https://bugs.debian.org/971974, which is about the following two
> debian/changelog entry signatures over which aptitude-changelog-parser
> respectively Dpkg::Changelog::Parse tripped (X-Debbugs-Cc'ing Guillem
> for that—JFYI, probably not be a libdpkg-perl bug), made me thinking if
> such case should be better reported by Lintian:
>
> -- John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> Thur, 29 May 2003 20:30:00 -0500
> -- John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> Thur, 7 Nov 2002 8:00:00 -0600
Yeah these are bogus changelog entries, and libdpkg-perl rightfully
complains.
> Funnily only weekdays beginning with a "T" show up: "Tues" and
> "Thur". Also the leading second space before the single-digit day is
> consistently missing (although that one actually isn't specified in RFC
> 822 and the the Debian Policy does not mention it either, so it is
> probably ok).
The various parts can be separated by an arbitrary number of spaces,
of course lintian could complain about lack of consistency here.
Thanks,
Guillem
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