Debian Bug report logs - #879056
debrelease: would be good to check that the Date: field is very recent

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Package: devscripts; Maintainer for devscripts is Devscripts Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for devscripts is src:devscripts (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 19:12:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version devscripts/2.17.10

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From: Julian Gilbey <[email protected]>
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Package: devscripts
Version: 2.17.10
Severity: wishlist

Duh, I've been updating bits of a package I'm maintaining in git, and
over the last few days I've been tweaking bits to make it work,
rebuilding, tweaking, rebuilding....

Eventually it worked and I debrelease'd it.

Only to realise that the "Date" line in the changelog was days ago.

It would be nice if debrelease could check that the Date field in the
.changes file is, say, < 1 day old.

But this is probably a relatively rare error, and not particularly
critical, so most definitely only a wishlist.  Then again, it might be
that it would be better to address this in dupload and dput.

Best wishes,

   Julian

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