Package: lintian Version: 2.0.0 Severity: wishlist I just built myself a local package of a new upstream version of mercurial, since I need it now and the freeze means it's unlikely to show up in unstable soon. And then I ran lintian on it, because I'm that kind of OCD. It issued two warnings: changelog-should-mention-nmu and source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number.
The top entry in the change log looks like this: mercurial (1.0.2-0~local1) unstable; urgency=low * Local package of mercurial 1.0.2. - patches/CVE-2008-4297 incorporated upstream. - patches/backport__CVE-2008-2942-fix incorporated upstream. - patches/backport__svn1.5-fix incorporated upstream. - patches/deb_specific__use_sensible-editor rediffed. -- Zack Weinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:56:35 -0700 May I suggest that the presence of the word 'local' in the version number, and/or the phrase 'local package' in the change log entry, should suppress these two warnings, since IMO it is obvious that this is not a malformed NMU? -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.46-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.22 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-15 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available) ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]