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To: nilesh@debian.org (Nilesh Patra)
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Control: reassign -1 dgit 14.8
Control: retitle -1 tag2upload does not remove not needed NEWS file
Hey,
thanks for your analysis. IMO the MR look fine.
> Now coming to the lintian warning: this is because at some point changelogs
> started to get trimmed. This was set to the date buster was released
> (2019-07-06).
I see. That part I havn't checked, because I wansn't aware, that the changelog
is timmed.
And I additionally understand, that I simple remove the NEWS anyways, because
Debian does not support this big jumps anyways.
One explanation why I see this lintinan warning:
I switched to tag2upload for torsocks for 2.5.0-4 and -5.
With the input if Nilesh I understood, that the NEWS file was not shipped in
Trixie. I didn't touched the NEWS files for years and just used
dkpg-buildpackage -S -d (on a sid system) to create the files to upload for
all versions < 2.5.0-4. so a normal dpkg-buildpackage run is able to process
this correctly.
Form my point of view it looks like the tag2upload system do create different
tarballs than I created locally. I attached on email that I got from the
tag2upload system.
Regards,
hefee
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On Montag, 23. Februar 2026 19:14 Nilesh Patra wrote:
> On 19/02/26 7:21 pm, Hefee wrote:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 2.129.0
> > Severity: normal
> > X-Debbugs-Cc: hefee@debian.org
> >
> > Hey,
> >
> > if I run lintian against torsocks it returns warning
> > debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version 2.0.0-1.
> > I checked myself an I find a 2.0.0-1 in d/changelog and the date in
> > changelog is written 3mins later so both checks are fine.
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-privacy-team/torsocks/-/blob/debian/sid/debia
> > n/NEWS?ref_type=heads
> > https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-privacy-team/torsocks/-/blob/debian/sid/debi
> > an/changelog?ref_type=heads#L224
> >
> > You can also see this warning in salsa-ci:
> >
> > https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-privacy-team/torsocks/-/jobs/9077770#L45
> >
> > W: libtorsocks: debian-news-entry-has-unknown-version 2.0.0-1
> > [usr/share/doc/libtorsocks/NEWS.Debian.gz]
> >
> > Interessing enough this warning is not listed in tracker nor was this an
> > issue before.
>
> That was because the previous version did not ship a NEWS in the `.deb`.
> You can even see this missing in trixie's file list
> https://packages.debian.org/trixie/amd64/libtorsocks/filelist
> | $ ar x libtorsocks_2.5.0-4_amd64.deb
> | $ tar -tf data.tar.xz
> | ./
> | ./usr/
> | ./usr/lib/
> | ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
> | ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtorsocks.a
> | ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtorsocks.la
> | ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtorsocks.so.0.0.0
> | ./usr/share/
> | ./usr/share/doc/
> | ./usr/share/doc/libtorsocks/
> | ./usr/share/doc/libtorsocks/changelog.Debian.gz
> | ./usr/share/doc/libtorsocks/changelog.gz
> | ./usr/share/doc/libtorsocks/copyright
> | ./usr/share/lintian/
> | ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/
> | ./usr/share/lintian/overrides/libtorsocks
> | ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtorsocks.so
> | ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtorsocks.so.0
> | $ tar -tf data.tar.xz | grep -i news
>
> It however does ship news file now
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libtorsocks/filelist
>
>
> Given that your NEWS entry dates back to 2014, it does not make sense to
> ship that anymore. At least not with that version.
>
> I've proposed a patch
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/667 to rename the
> tag and add more verbose explanation.
>
> Best,
> Nilesh
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