Hi! On Sat, 2020-10-10 at 23:44:19 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.97.0 > Severity: wishlist
> https://bugs.debian.org/971974, which is about the following two > debian/changelog entry signatures over which aptitude-changelog-parser > respectively Dpkg::Changelog::Parse tripped (X-Debbugs-Cc'ing Guillem > for that—JFYI, probably not be a libdpkg-perl bug), made me thinking if > such case should be better reported by Lintian: > > -- John Hasler <j...@dhh.gt.org> Thur, 29 May 2003 20:30:00 -0500 > -- John Hasler <j...@dhh.gt.org> Thur, 7 Nov 2002 8:00:00 -0600 Yeah these are bogus changelog entries, and libdpkg-perl rightfully complains. > Funnily only weekdays beginning with a "T" show up: "Tues" and > "Thur". Also the leading second space before the single-digit day is > consistently missing (although that one actually isn't specified in RFC > 822 and the the Debian Policy does not mention it either, so it is > probably ok). The various parts can be separated by an arbitrary number of spaces, of course lintian could complain about lack of consistency here. Thanks, Guillem
