Control: severity 795936 important
Control: severity 795140 serious

[ Sorry, used the bug in the To: instead of the cloned one. :/ ]

Hi!

On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 15:45:32 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-08-18 at 16:00:50 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, that part was not done on purpose. :) Anyway, I agree the
> message is not very helpful, and I'm fixing this for dpkg 1.18.3, I'll
> also turn it into a warning.
> 
> > It seems that spelled out (i.e., non-abbreviated) month names are not
> > anymore accepted.
> 
> debian-policy does not allow such month names anyway, so you should
> really be fixing this in the packages themselves anyway.

Thanks,
Guillem

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