Ralf Treinen <trei...@debian.org> writes: > Lintian issues an informational item (taken from http://lintian.debian.org/):
> There appears to be no blank line after the most recent NEWS.Debian entry. > The current apt-listchanges takes the blank that separates entries for > different packages from the blank line following the trailer line of > each NEWS.Debian file. This means that unless there is a blank line > after an entry, it may be displayed to the user without a blank line > between it and entries from other packages. Please add a blank line > (which, if this is the only entry in the file, may mean adding a > trailing blank line). > This is unbelievable. Should we modify several hundred source packages > just because apt-listchanges cannot properly display NEWS files? If this > is an issue than it should be fixed in apt-listchanges, and not by a > workaround in source packages! There's been an open bug against apt-listchanges since 2004 (#247356). Please send your rants there rather than to the Lintian maintainers. We added this check after multiple requests since the displayed output is ugly in a fairly user-visible place without the blank line. We will be happy to remove the check when the bug is fixed. However, given that it's gone unfixed for six years, I'm not hopeful that will happen soon. I find it frustrating too, but getting upset at us won't help. The tag in Lintian is minor/possible so only an I: level tag and not displayed by default. If you're asking for info-level tags from Lintian, you should expect to get some picky output. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
