Bug#920184: lintian: incorrectly parses an unfinalised changelog entry

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 920184 + pending
retitle 920184 lintian: incorrectly parses empty changelog signature line as an NMU
thanks

Hi Ben,

> ipsum (3.4.5-2) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
> 
>   * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.
>   * Cras in sem consequat, consectetur ligula ac, volutpat nulla.
> 
>  --
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

(NB. this bit is missing; the first time I saw your report I didn't
see this and almost pinged you back with a "huh?" …!)

Anyway, fixed in Git, pending upload:

  https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/bbefefc602c37711de56a1427dc3d30e12b591d1

However, as you rightly intuit this is being "warned at" somewhere
else in the dpkg toolchain. ie. you will still see:

    +W: srcpkg: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 6 "badly formatted trailer line"
    +W: srcpkg: syntax-error-in-debian-changelog line 8 "found start of entry where expected more change data or trailer"
    
I don't believe Lintian should silence this and defer to whatever
happens to be reporting this (likely libdpkg-perl), but it should
not detect it as an NMU.


Regards,

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