Bug#935070: [lintian] Tags are too similar

[Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Chris Lamb wrote:

> >     latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version
> >     latest-debian-changelog-entry-reuses-existing-version

> I just checked that they don't have different severities which could
> have been a justification for different tags (they don't).

Umm… as I always understood it these are completely different:

- latest-debian-changelog-entry-reuses-existing-version checks that
  the version without the epoch is never reused, for the archive and
  snapshots to be consistent (as the epoch is not used in filenames)

- latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version checks that the
  upload does not have a smaller (or equal) version number to the
  previous upload except in backports, to ensure that it’ll be newer
  and nobody forgot a version increment before uploading

Just wondering,
//mirabilos

PS: Personally I’m not negatively affected by removal of the latter,
    it was always annoying for local backports, but it might have
    saved someone else from a brown paper bag upload…
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