Package: lintian Version: 2.2.5 Severity: wishlist I think *-patch-missing-description should mention more things and I propose the following replacement text. The things I mention are very useful for reducing divergence in cases where the Debian maintainer hasn't done a very good job of forwarding patches upstream or upstream hasn't been active or accepted the patches.
I: foo source: quilt-patch-missing-description foo.patch N: N: quilt patch files should carry a description of the function of the N: included patch. Description lines may be included before the start of N: the patch itself. Other recommended metadata include authors, a URL for N: where the bug was taken from, Debian/upstream bugs closed, upstream status, N: Debian version & date the patch was introduced and URLs to initial reports N: or other interesting info. N: N: Severity: wishlist, Certainty: certain N: -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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