Lintian tag: debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The date in the changelog entry is not consistent with the actual day of
that week. Either the date is wrong or the day of week is wrong.

To avoid problems like this, consider using a tool like dch(1) or date(1)
to generate the date. Example:

$ date -R -ud '2013-11-05 23:59:59'
Tue, 05 Nov 2013 23:59:59 +0000

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/changelog
Renamed from: debian-changelog-has-wrong-weekday

Affected packages

source	version	binary	tag type	tag	information	count
0ad	0.0.26-6	0ad/0.0.26-6	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-10-18 was a Friday [usr/share/doc/0ad/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	4
gscan2pdf	2.13.4-4	gscan2pdf/2.13.4-4	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-08-15 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/gscan2pdf/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
ioport	1.2-1	ioport/1.2-1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2018-01-06 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/ioport/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
ioport	1.2-1	ioport/1.2-1+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2018-01-06 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/ioport/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
mcomix	3.1.0-1	mcomix/3.1.0-1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-07-18 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/mcomix/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
mle	1.7.2-1	mle/1.7.2-1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2023-05-24 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/mle/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	7
mle	1.7.2-1	mle/1.7.2-1+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2023-05-24 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/mle/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	2
paflib	0.3.0-1	libpaf-dev/0.3.0-1+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2016-09-05 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/libpaf-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
paflib	0.3.0-1	libpaf-dsc0/0.3.0-1+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2016-09-05 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/libpaf-dsc0/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
paflib	0.3.0-1	libpaf-ebb0/0.3.0-1+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2016-09-05 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/libpaf-ebb0/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
tdc	2.0-1	tdc/2.0-1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2023-10-12 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/tdc/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	7
tdc	2.0-1	tdc/2.0-1+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2023-10-12 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/tdc/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	2
tilde	1.1.2-1	tilde/1.1.2-1+b2	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2019-12-12 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/tilde/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	7
tilde	1.1.2-1	tilde/1.1.2-1+b3	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2019-12-12 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/tilde/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	2
translation-finder	1.0-5	python3-translation-finder/1.0-5	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-05-25 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/python3-translation-finder/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	9
wajig	4.1.2	wajig/4.1.2	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-03-03 was a Sunday [usr/share/doc/wajig/changelog.gz:1]	1
xca	2.6.0-2	xca/2.6.0-2	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-06-27 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/xca/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	8
xca	2.6.0-2	xca/2.6.0-2+b1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-06-27 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/xca/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	1
xfsprogs	6.11.0-1	xfslibs-dev/6.11.0-1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-10-19 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/xfslibs-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	9
xfsprogs	6.11.0-1	xfsprogs/6.11.0-1	warning	debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week	2024-10-19 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/xfsprogs/changelog.Debian.gz:1]	9