debian-changelog-line-too-short
The given line of the latest changelog entry appears to contain a very terse entry.
This can make it hard for others to understand the changelog entry. Please keep in mind that:
- It is not uncommon that people read changelog entries that are more than a decade old to understand why a change was made or why a package works in a specific way.
- Many users will read the changelog via
apt-listchanges(1)
- The information in
debian/changelog
is permanent.
Examples for entries that are too short include "dh 11" or simply "R³" - these could be expanded to, for example:
- Switch to debhelper compat 11.
- Set Rules-Requires-Root: no.
Severity: | pedantic |
Experimental: | false |
See also
- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag