Lintian tag: changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The latest changelog file for this package specifies a version in the form
of 1.2-3+deb8u1, 1.2-3+nmu4 (or similar) but this does not follow from a
corresponding 1.2-3 changelog stanza.

This suggests that changes were merged into a single entry. This is
suboptimal as it makes it more difficult for users to determine which
upload fixed a particular bug.

Please refer to Preparing packages to address security issues (Section
5.8.5.4) in the Debian Developer's Reference, NMUs and debian/changelog
(Section 5.11.2) in the Debian Developer's Reference, Direct updates to
testing (Section 5.14.3) in the Debian Developer's Reference, and
Bug#916877 for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/changelog

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
abi-compliance-checker 2.3-5.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 2.3-3 -> 2.3-5 (missing) -> 2.3-5.1 [debian/changelog:1]
debian-installer 20250803+deb13u4 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 20250803+deb13u3 -> 20250803 (missing) -> 20250803+deb13u4 [debian/changelog:1]
debian-installer-netboot-images 20250803+deb13u4 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 20250803+deb13u3 -> 20250803 (missing) -> 20250803+deb13u4 [debian/changelog:1]
libgnatcoll-bindings 25.0.0-2.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 25.0.0-2build3 -> 25.0.0-2 (missing) -> 25.0.0-2.1 [debian/changelog:1]
libhx 5.2-1.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 5.2-1~exp1 -> 5.2-1 (missing) -> 5.2-1.1 [debian/changelog:1]
libliftoff 0.5.0-1.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 0.4.1-1 -> 0.5.0-1 (missing) -> 0.5.0-1.1 [debian/changelog:1]
organize 3.3.0-1.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 2.4.0-1 -> 3.3.0-1 (missing) -> 3.3.0-1.1 [debian/changelog:1]
px 3.6.12-2.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 3.6.12-1 -> 3.6.12-2 (missing) -> 3.6.12-2.1 [debian/changelog:1]
xtl 0.8.2-1~0.1 warning changelog-file-missing-explicit-entry 1 0.8.1-1~0.1 -> 0.8.2-1~0 (missing) -> 0.8.2-1~0.1 [debian/changelog:1]