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Bug#409108: lintian: [improve message] W: bzrtools source: changelog-should-mention-nmu



Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> SUGGESTION

> The info message could give the exact phrase to use. 

>     N:   When you NMU a package, that fact should be mentioned on the first
>     N:   line in the changelog entry:
>     N: 
>     N:     * Non Maintainer-upload.
>     ...

> E.g. to notice the missing hyphen in first message is not very obvios.

> Or, there could be some leverage to match some obvious strings that 
> look like the correct string:

>     /[*].*(Non[- \t]Maintainer upload|NMU[ \t]upload)/i

A combination of both of these approaches sounds good to me.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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