From: nilesh@debian.org   
      
   Control: tags -1 patch   
      
   On 24/02/26 6:07 pm, Ian Jackson wrote:   
   > Control: reassign -1 debhelper   
   > Control: retitle -1 dh_installchangelogs should trim old NEWS.Debian entries   
   too   
   > Control: found -1 13.30   
   >   
   > tl;dr, esp. for debhelper maintainers:   
   >   
   >   dh_installchangelogs should apply the same date/release-based   
   >   filtering algorithm to debian/NEWS aka NEWS.Debian that it does to   
   >   debian/changelog.   
   >   
   >   Otherwise very old NEWS entries can appear in the .debs, even for   
   >   versions that the changelog doesn't mention.  This is largely   
   >   harmless, but does cause a (correct) warning from lintian.   
   >   
   >   If the resulting NEWS.Debian file is empty, it should probably be   
   >   omitted completely.   
      
   I'm not a debhelper maintainer (not yet at least), but I've opened a Merge   
   Request   
   implementing this suggestion.   
      
   I tried for torsocks and it seems to be working.   
      
   https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debhelper/-/merge_requests/147   
      
   Best,   
   Nilesh   
      
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