Hi -devel,
Since [0], failing the following Lintian tag will now cause your
upload to be rejecting by the Debian archive software:
Tag: latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-date
Severity: important
Certainty: certain
Info: The latest Debian changelog entry has either the same or even an
older date as the entry before.
.
This can result in subtle bugs due to the <tt>SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH</tt>
environment variable being the same between the older and newer
versions.
This is to address #873489 [1]. There is more rationale available in
the thread from one of our users [2].
The current version of Lintian in buster/sid (2.5.52) emits this as
a warning ("W:") but the next version — pending release — will emit
this as an error ("E:") [3].
(If you believe other tags should be auto-rejected, please open
a suitable wishlist bug against the "ftp.debian.org" BTS pseudo-
package. You can read more about Lintian autorejects on the
ftpmaster webpages [4].)
[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-dak/2017/08/msg00005.html
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873489
[2]
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/reproducible-builds/Week-of-Mon-20170828/009167.html
[3]
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=a5146df5a79f449e9ae9c44554968418aa1f7900
[4] https://ftp-master.debian.org/#lintianrejects
Best wishes,
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