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 level tag count information
apertium-get 1.0.2-1 apertium-get/1.0.2-1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2022-09-09 was a Friday [usr/share/doc/apertium-get/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
bzrformats 3.4.0-1 python3-bzrformats/3.4.0-1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 8 2026-04-08 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/python3-bzrformats/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
cppimport 22.08.02-5 python3-cppimport/22.08.02-5 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2024-11-07 was a Thursday [usr/share/doc/python3-cppimport/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
hashcat 7.1.2+ds1-4 hashcat/7.1.2+ds1-4 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 4 2026-04-14 was a Tuesday [usr/share/doc/hashcat/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
hashcat 7.1.2+ds1-4 hashcat-data/7.1.2+ds1-4 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2026-04-14 was a Tuesday [usr/share/doc/hashcat-data/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
ioport 1.2-1 ioport/1.2-1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2018-01-06 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/ioport/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
ioport 1.2-1 ioport/1.2-1+b1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2018-01-06 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/ioport/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
kshutdown 6.0-2 kshutdown/6.0-2 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 7 2025-11-26 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/kshutdown/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
kshutdown 6.0-2 kshutdown/6.0-2+b1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2025-11-26 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/kshutdown/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
mithril 1.1.7+dfsg-1 node-mithril/1.1.7+dfsg-1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2025-02-28 was a Friday [usr/share/doc/node-mithril/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
mle 1.7.2-1 mle/1.7.2-1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 6 2023-05-24 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/mle/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
mle 1.7.2-1 mle/1.7.2-1+b1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2023-05-24 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/mle/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
mle 1.7.2-1 mle/1.7.2-1+b2 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2023-05-24 was a Wednesday [usr/share/doc/mle/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
paflib 0.3.0-1 libpaf-dev/0.3.0-1+b1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2016-09-05 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/libpaf-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
paflib 0.3.0-1 libpaf-dsc0/0.3.0-1+b1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2016-09-05 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/libpaf-dsc0/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
paflib 0.3.0-1 libpaf-ebb0/0.3.0-1+b1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 1 2016-09-05 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/libpaf-ebb0/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
pentobi 30.0-1 pentobi/30.0-1 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 8 2026-03-30 was a Monday [usr/share/doc/pentobi/changelog.Debian.gz:1]
translation-finder 1.0-5 python3-translation-finder/1.0-5 warning debian-changelog-has-wrong-day-of-week 8 2024-05-25 was a Saturday [usr/share/doc/python3-translation-finder/changelog.Debian.gz:1]