Package: lintian Hi. "malformed-debian-changelog-version" triggered for a package I was working on and I couldn't understand why. The description says the version couldn't be parsed, but of course if that the version was in a wrong syntax the package wouldn't reach the archive.
I ended up looking at this list: https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag/malformed-debian-changelog-version?affected=yes It seems like lintian is calling it an error, for a package with a native source format (1.0 native, or "3.0 (native)") to have a revision in its verseion number. This usage has been disputed for some time. The dispute was settled in #1136336 when the Technical Committee ruled that: | 1. It is not a bug of any severity for a package with a non-native | version number to use a native source package format. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1007717#384 Please would you relax this check in lintian? According to the TC decision I think this probably doesn't even merit a warning. Thanks, Ian. -- Ian Jackson <[email protected]> These opinions are my own. Pronouns: they/he. If I emailed you from @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
