On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Since dpkg/1.14.16, we have: > > | * Some code refactoring on dpkg-genchanges and bug fixes in the generation > > | of the Description: field. As a result, source only uploads will no more > > | have Description fields. > > > > I presume it'dbe safe to turn off this check when checking a source-only > > upload (if you don't detect source-only uploads yet, I guess that the > > /_source.changes$/ pattern should do the job. > > Policy 5.5 says that Description is mandatory for all *.changes files, > which is why the lintian tag. However, I agree that Description doesn't > make much sense for source-only uploads, since there are no individual > package descriptions in that case to lift into it.
Note that we have had several reports of things that failed following that change (and I was thinking that Description fields in .changes were almost not used...) and thus we decided to revert the behaviour for the upcoming 1.14.17 and we know include descriptions of all packages in any case. mentors.debian.net uses it for example to show a short description of any package uploaded for review/sponsoring. It also broke something in Ubuntu. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
