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[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 04:04:35PM -0800, Evan Broder wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2011, 17:38 -0800 schrieb Evan Broder:
> >> If there is more that lintian.uw.o could be doing for you, please let me know!

> > Thanks for setting this service up.

> > I compared my profiles [1] and [2] and discovered false positive
> > results: debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version and
> > non-standard-file-perm

> Thanks for pointing these out. I believe there is an explanation for
> both of them; adjusting to correct for it may be difficult, though.

> > debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version complains about normal Debian
> > changelog entry versions.

> debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version is a check on the binary
> package, so it's comparing those version numbers against the changelog
> in the binary package. Starting with natty, pkgbinarymangler strips
> all but the 10 most recent changelog entries. In all cases, the
> versions lintian is complaining about are not included in the shrunk
> changelog.

> I'm not sure what to do with that - maybe pkgbinarymangler should
> remove NEWS entries not included in the shrunk changelog?

This would negatively impact the purpose of said NEWS files, which is to
notify users of changes in the software since the previous version they had
installed.  There's absolutely no guarantee that the relevant news was
introduced within the last 10 most recent uploads - especially if the user
is doing an LTS->LTS upgrade.

I'd rather we suppress (or otherwise ignore) this warning instead.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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