On 22-Jan-2019, Chris Lamb wrote: > Hi Ben, > > > ipsum (3.4.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium > > > > * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. > > * Cras in sem consequat, consectetur ligula ac, volutpat nulla. > > > > -- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > (NB. this bit is missing; the first time I saw your report I didn't > see this and almost pinged you back with a "huh?" …!)
Yes, that is what constitutes an unfinalised changelog entry: no maintainer or date value in the closing line. I'm not sure what the NB refers to; that part of the changelog entry is exactly the difference I was pointing out. So we both seem to be directing each other's attention to the same thing :-) > Anyway, fixed in Git, pending upload: Thanks. > I don't believe Lintian should silence this and defer to whatever > happens to be reporting this (likely libdpkg-perl) […] My Perl knowledge is too weak to debug this, so how would I diagnose where this behaviour in changelog parsing originates? -- \ “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.” (“Whatever is | `\ said in Latin, sounds profound.”) —anonymous | _o__) | Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org>
