Hi,

yesterday (in November 2021), I accidentally uploaded a package with the
changelog date back in February 2021. I should have used dch instead of
straight vim.

Please have lintian issue a warning if the changelog date is like, more
than a week in the past.

Greetings
Marc

Hi Marc,

As a static analysis tool Lintian traditionally eschews tags that
depend externally on the current time or date. Those tags tend to be
hard to reproduce and, as a group, do not meet our stringent standards
for quality control.

Also, maintainers who find themselves in similar situations—possibly
due to a dislike of official tools—may also not be using Lintian.

Would it make more sense for 'dput' (or dupload) to issue the warning,
or perhaps even for the archive to reject the upload?

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

I like the idea of dput, which would need to pull the changelog fragment
from the *.changes file since it doesn't unpack the package. The archive
rejecting the upload might be see a bit hostile (at least that's how my
subconsciousness usually reacts to ftpmaster rejections, even if they're
fully correct according to my rational part) to me.

Greetings
Marc

Hi Marc,

Are you sure? Maybe your subconscious would have preferred a
rejection. At a minimum, you are wishing for some kind of improvement.

Lintian already does other things, such as checking that your most
recent timestamp postdates the release date of the policy version with
which the sources declare compliance [1] but that would not have
caught gensio, which I think is the package you uploaded.

Kind regards
Felix Lechner

[1] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/timewarp-standards-version

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