#973920 bash: malformed line in changelog.Debian.gz

#973920#5
Date:
2020-11-07 14:20:30 UTC
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Hello,

a malformed line in changelog.Debian.gz triggers a warning when trying
to open said changelog inside aptitude. To reproduce it, open aptitude
(the ncurses interface), go to the "bash" package and press C (capital
C). The warning message is interspersed within the aptitude window, so
it can't be pasted here. I can't seem to reproduce it calling
aptitude-changelog-parser from the command line.

The guilty line seems to be:

"-- James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk>  Thur, 19 June 1997 19:13:34
+0100"

(yes, that's 1997, a whopping 23 years ago). It belongs to bash version
2.01-0, hence the "Version:" header.

I suspect that changing "Thur," into "Thu," would fix the issue.

Sorry for digging up such an archeological find.

Regards,
Gabriele Stilli