Debian Bug report logs - #962927
lintian: detect when a package will be uploaded with a new maintainer but without any changes

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

Reported by: Paul Wise <[email protected]>

Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 04:06:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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Subject: lintian: detect when a package will be uploaded with a new
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Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist

Recently I noticed a package enter Debian with a changelog something like below. The only other change to the package was in the Maintainer
field in debian/control. Rebuilds that only change the maintainer are a waste of buildd time, mirror sync bandwith and snapshot.d.o disk space and should be discouraged. It would be nice if lintian could detect these sort of uploads and have them rejected. Probably the check should work by matching the latest Debian changelog entry against the template below, allowing for inclusion or not of the bug closing and allowing for varying source package name, version, suite (unstable & experimental), uploader and date.

something (1.2.3-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New maintainer. (Closes: #123456)

 -- Some One <[email protected]>  Sat, 16 Jun 2020 11:51:11 +0800

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