Bug#732225: please add check for backports changes file

2013-12-15 Thread Ivo De Decker
package: lintian tags: patch Dear lintian maintainers, Please consider the attached patch to add a check for the changes file of uploads to backports. The patch introduces 2 new tags: backports-changes-missing, for uploads that don't include multiple changelog entries in the changes file (this

Bug#732246: lintian: False positive for rc-version-greater-than-expected-version with +dev in version number

2013-12-15 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.19 Severity: normal Hi, I'm developing a non-native package as both, Upstream and Debian package maintainer. It's common that I've not yet decided what will be the new upstream version number and hence add +dev to the previous release's upstream version number.