On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 09:57:40AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:06:05PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > 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
Yes.
> 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.
Yes, that would be the correct way.
Greetings
Marc
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