Hi! On Fri, 2021-01-22 at 22:15:24 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 4.5.0.0 > Severity: minor > > This is a bit of a nit pick, but I think it is a special case worth > mentioning in Policy. > > I am basing this on > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#debian-changelog-debian-changelog > where the date format of the changelog signoff line is described as: > > > > The date has the following format 7 (compatible and with the same semantics > > of RFC 2822 and RFC 5322): > > > > day-of-week, dd month yyyy hh:mm:ss +zzzz > > > > where: > > > > day-of-week is one of: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun > > > > dd is a one- or two-digit day of the month (01-31) > > [...] > > I find that "single-digit day" is a bit underspecified here in. > Basically there are two options, either the leading zero is replaced > with a leading space or the leading zero is simply omitted. > > Sadly, neither RFC 2822 nor RFC 5322 are helpful in clearing this up as > they both assume "two-digit" days. > > My understanding is that the reason for "single-digit" days is to > support historical changelogs, where Debian omitted the leading zero. > The samples I have found[1], the leading zero is replaced with a single > space as in: > > > -- Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800 > > > > This is relatively prevalent. As an (un)scientific example, this > alternative variant accounts for: > > * ~21% of all signoff dates in debhelper (202/927) > * ~10% of all signoff dates in apt (49/480) > > > I applaud policy for highlighting the correct and preferred example, so > I propose that we restrain this amendment to a footnote (or another note > of equal low importance) that informs the reader that this alternative > format may be found in older changelog entries and that this variant is > still accepted but that the two-digit format with leading zero should be > preferred in every new entry.
Isn't this report a duplicate of #971977? (I clarified the other report in deb-changelog(5) with <https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=05264f16e69d34b78700fccddc6f9950e75a8295>.) Thanks, Guillem
