clone 795140 -1 -2
reassign -1 lintian
reassing -2 dpkg
retitle -1 needs to warn on non-abbreviated month names
retitle -2 needs to check for non-abbreviated month names
thanks

> The package fails to build.  dpkg has recently[1] been made more
> sensitive to date formats in the changelog, although it does not give

Aehm, without providing error messages...

> The only error printed is, at some point during the build:
> Error parsing time at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20/Time/Piece.pm line 
> 469, <$filehandle> line 5.

Not very helpful.

It seems that spelled out (i.e., non-abbreviated) month names are not
anymore accepted.

dpkg and lintian need to clean up their mess, too, and provide proper
warnings or return values.

Thanks

Norbert

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