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Bug#793406: lintian: should warn about wrongly formatted dates in changelog

From Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#793406: lintian: should warn about wrongly formatted dates in changelog
Date 2017-12-28 21:00 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:50:08AM +0000, Chris Lamb wrote:
>   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/commit/?id=be03f617419839f40583c7db068e36898ed18c81

May I suggest to raise the severity of this new tag (so that the tag
becomes an "E")?
Policy just uses the to have verb, not should nor must.  It's a fact,
that date is plain wrong, period :)

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Bug#793406: lintian: should warn about wrongly formatted dates in changelog Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2017-12-28 13:00 +0100
  Bug#793406: lintian: should warn about wrongly formatted dates in changelog Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2017-12-28 21:00 +0100
    Bug#793406: lintian: should warn about wrongly formatted dates in changelog Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> - 2017-12-28 21:20 +0100

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