Package: dpkg
Version: 1.19.2
Severity: normal
Hi,
The dpkg-mergechangelogs utility strips vim modelines (etc). I
discovered this in lintian which has a trailing "vim: et" at the end
of the file.
This is, of course, caused by:
} elsif (m/^vim:/io) {
last; # skip Vim modelines at end of file
… in "scripts/Dpkg/Changelog/Debian.pm". I'm not sure what can be done
about this however without introducing a special mode/option to the
parsing code, however.
Thoughts?
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A simple testcase for this issue is:
--- a/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/c]h-a
+++ b/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-a
@@ -90,3 +90,5 @@ test (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release. (Closes: #XXXXXX)
-- Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:37:46 +0200
+
+vim: et
diff --git a/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-b b/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-b
index 9eb7869..a74145f 100644
--- a/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-b
+++ b/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-b
@@ -85,3 +85,5 @@ test (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release. (Closes: #XXXXXX)
-- Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:37:46 +0200
+
+vim: et
diff --git a/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-old
b/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-old
index 12ee224..5ff7dd3 100644
--- a/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-old
+++ b/scripts/t/merge_changelogs/ch-old
@@ -83,3 +83,5 @@ test (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial release. (Closes: #XXXXXX)
-- Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:37:46 +0200
+
+vim: et
Regards,
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