Dear Chris, On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > (Could you push these to a Git repository somewhere? That would make > them easier to apply... Thanks in advance!)
Please have a look at https://github.com/lechner/lintian. The repo contains my locally synchronized copy of your master as well as my branch 'improve-changelog-version-parsing'. Each commit passes all tests and is perl-tidy. Unfortunately, I annotated the patches manually in greater detail. You may wish to consult them. The upshot is: Many version checks happen on binary packages in checks/changelog-file.pm, although they may be more helpful on source packages. Per suggestion from Paul Wise, one could check that binary packages ship with the source changelog. If the maintainers are receptive to part of this patch series, the author would be happy help consolidate further checks in checks/source-changelog. Thank you! Best regards, Felix