From: jelmer@jelmer.uk   
      
   Hi Andreas,   
      
   If you have specific examples, that would be very helpful.   
      
   I'm about to switch to a better parser for YAML files, so hopefully that will   
   fix the issues you are seeing. But it would be good to have some test cases to   
   verify that the new parser works correctly.   
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Jelmer   
      
   On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 12:30:52PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:   
   >Package: lintian-brush   
   >Version: 0.167   
   >Severity: normal   
   >   
   >Hi Jelmer,   
   >   
   >I'm using lintian-brush nearly before any upload of my packages.   
   >Recently I realised that it messes up Publication and Registry entries a   
   >lot to make them either unusable (JSON sytnax becomes broken) or is   
   >loosing a lot of information.  I would be happy if we could switch back   
   >to some more conservative handling of these fields or rather do not   
   >touch these.   
   >   
   >I could assemble some specific examples if this might be helpful, thought   
   >   
   >Thank you for lintian-brush anyway   
   >   Andreas.   
   >   
   >-- System Information:   
   >Debian Release: forky/sid   
   >  APT prefers unstable   
   >  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (50, 'buildd-unstable'),   
   (1, 'experimental')   
   >Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)   
   >   
   >Kernel: Linux 6.18.12+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)   
   >Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not   
   set   
   >Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash   
   >Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)   
   >LSM: AppArmor: enabled   
   >   
   >Versions of packages lintian-brush depends on:   
   >ii  devscripts      2.26.5   
   >ii  libc6           2.42-13   
   >ii  libgcc-s1       15.2.0-13   
   >ii  libgmp10        2:6.3.0+dfsg-5+b1   
   >ii  libhogweed6t64  3.10.2-1   
   >ii  liblzma5        5.8.2-2   
   >ii  libnettle8t64   3.10.2-1   
   >ii  libpython3.13   3.13.12-1   
   >ii  libssl3t64      3.5.5-1   
   >ii  python3-breezy  3.3.21-1   
   >   
   >Versions of packages lintian-brush recommends:   
   >ii  debhelper  13.30   
   >ii  decopy     0.2.4.9-0.1   
   >ii  dos2unix   7.5.2-1   
   >ii  gpg        2.4.8-5   
   >ii  lintian    2.129.0   
   >   
   >Versions of packages lintian-brush suggests:   
   >ii  brz-debian         2.8.80   
   >ii  git-buildpackage   0.9.39   
   >ii  po-debconf         1.0.22   
   >ii  postgresql-common  289   
   >   
   >-- no debconf information   
      
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