On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> Package: devscripts
> Version: 2.9.20
> Severity: minor
>
> Hi,
>
> if debian/NEWS is badly formatted and dch --news is invoked, the
> script complains about a badly formatted changelog instead of a badly
> formatted NEWS.
>
> This might be misleading to people stupid like me.
I'm assuming this the error message you are talking about is something
like:
parsechangelog/debian: error: badly formatted urgency value, at
changelog line 17
This is actually quite difficult to fix, as it is a dpkg issue: in
/usr/lib/dpkg/parsechangelog/debian, the command clerror is defined
as:
sub clerror { &error("$_[0], at changelog line $."); }
which makes no mention of the changelog name. If you would like, I
could reassign this bug to dpkg-dev.
A patch for dpkg-dev could be something like:
* pass any -l option onto the parser from dpkg-parsechangelog
* in the parser, set $changelogfile to be 'changelog' by default, and
change it to the -l option if there is one
* in the error messages, replace 'changelog' by '$changelogfile'
Julian
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