Lintian tag: debian-changelog-line-too-short

Type: pedantic

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The given line of the latest changelog entry appears to contain a very
terse entry.

This can make it hard for others to understand the changelog entry. Please
keep in mind that:

- It is not uncommon that people read changelog entries that are more
than a decade old to understand why a change was made or why a
package works in a specific way.
- Many users will read the changelog via
apt-listchanges(1)
- The information in debian/changelog is permanent.

Examples for entries that are too short include "dh 11" or simply "R³" -
these could be expanded to, for example:

- Switch to debhelper compat 11.
- Set Rules-Requires-Root: no.

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

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
braillegraph 0.3-2 braillegraph/0.3-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 R³. [usr/share/doc/braillegraph/changelog.Debian.gz:5]
cal 4.1-1 ccal/4.1-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/ccal/changelog.Debian.gz:22]
cpu-x 5.4.0-0.1 cpu-x/5.4.0-0.1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 5 NMU [usr/share/doc/cpu-x/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
dbeacon 0.4.0-3 dbeacon/0.4.0-3 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/dbeacon/changelog.Debian.gz:20]
dis51 0.5-2 dis51/0.5-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 d/p/ [usr/share/doc/dis51/changelog.Debian.gz:5]
etherwake 1.09-5 etherwake/1.09-5 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/etherwake/changelog.Debian.gz:17]
fillets-ng 1.0.1-5 fillets-ng/1.0.1-5 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/fillets-ng/changelog.Debian.gz:25]
libbiblio-isis-perl 0.24-2 libbiblio-isis-perl/0.24-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/libbiblio-isis-perl/changelog.Debian.gz:12]
libcpuid 0.8.1+repack1-0.1 cpuidtool/0.8.1+repack1-0.1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 5 NMU [usr/share/doc/cpuidtool/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
libcpuid 0.8.1+repack1-0.1 libcpuid18/0.8.1+repack1-0.1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 5 NMU [usr/share/doc/libcpuid18/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
libcpuid 0.8.1+repack1-0.1 libcpuid-dev/0.8.1+repack1-0.1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 5 NMU [usr/share/doc/libcpuid-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
libhbalinux 1.0.16-2 libhbalinux2/1.0.16-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 7 R³. [usr/share/doc/libhbalinux2/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
libhbalinux 1.0.16-2 libhbalinux2/1.0.16-2+b1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 2 R³. [usr/share/doc/libhbalinux2/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
libhbalinux 1.0.16-2 libhbalinux-dev/1.0.16-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 7 R³. [usr/share/doc/libhbalinux-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
libhbalinux 1.0.16-2 libhbalinux-dev/1.0.16-2+b1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 2 R³. [usr/share/doc/libhbalinux-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
libimage-metadata-jpeg-perl 0.159-1 libimage-metadata-jpeg-perl/0.159-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/libimage-metadata-jpeg-perl/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
lynis 3.1.4-1 lynis/3.1.4-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 NUR. [usr/share/doc/lynis/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
mapivi 1.2+svn356-1 mapivi/1.2+svn356-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/mapivi/changelog.Debian.gz:26]
metar 20190227.1-2 metar/20190227.1-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/metar/changelog.Debian.gz:8]
mopac7 1.15-7 libmopac7-1gf/1.15-7 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/libmopac7-1gf/changelog.Debian.gz:16]
mopac7 1.15-7 libmopac7-dev/1.15-7 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/libmopac7-dev/changelog.Debian.gz:16]
mopac7 1.15-7 mopac7-bin/1.15-7 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/mopac7-bin/changelog.Debian.gz:16]
mppenc 1.16-2 mppenc/1.16-2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/mppenc/changelog.Debian.gz:18]
multitee 3.0-6.1 multitee/3.0-6.1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 d/p/ [usr/share/doc/multitee/changelog.Debian.gz:5]
oaklisp 1.3.7-4 oaklisp/1.3.7-4 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 6 #;e [usr/share/doc/oaklisp/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
oaklisp 1.3.7-4 oaklisp-doc/1.3.7-4 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 #;e [usr/share/doc/oaklisp-doc/changelog.Debian.gz:3]
openjdk-8 8u462-ga-1 openjdk-8-doc/8u462-ga-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 CVEs [usr/share/doc/openjdk-8-doc/changelog.Debian.gz:4]
openjdk-8 8u462-ga-1 openjdk-8-jre-headless/8u462-ga-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 8 CVEs [usr/share/doc/openjdk-8-jre-headless/changelog.Debian.gz:4]
pentaho-reporting-flow-engine 0.9.4-6 libpentaho-reporting-flow-engine-java/0.9.4-6 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/libpentaho-reporting-flow-engine-java/changelog.Debian.gz:6]
pentaho-reporting-flow-engine 0.9.4-6 libpentaho-reporting-flow-engine-java-doc/0.9.4-6 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/libpentaho-reporting-flow-engine-java-doc/changelog.Debian.gz:6]
pngmeta 1.11-10 pngmeta/1.11-10+b1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 7 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/pngmeta/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
pngmeta 1.11-10 pngmeta/1.11-10+b2 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 2 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/pngmeta/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
pokrok 0.2.0-5 python3-pokrok/0.2.0-5 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/python3-pokrok/changelog.Debian.gz:9]
postmark 1.53-3 postmark/1.53-3 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/postmark/changelog.Debian.gz:15]
r-other-x4r 1.0.1+git20150806.c6bd9bd-3 r-other-x4r/1.0.1+git20150806.c6bd9bd-3 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 7 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/r-other-x4r/changelog.Debian.gz:8]
r-other-x4r 1.0.1+git20150806.c6bd9bd-3 r-other-x4r/1.0.1+git20150806.c6bd9bd-3+b1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 2 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/r-other-x4r/changelog.Debian.gz:8]
ruby-uuidtools 2.2.0-1 ruby-uuidtools/2.2.0-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 NUR. [usr/share/doc/ruby-uuidtools/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
ruby-uuidtools 2.2.0-1 ruby-uuidtools-doc/2.2.0-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 NUR. [usr/share/doc/ruby-uuidtools-doc/changelog.Debian.gz:7]
solvate 1.0-3 solvate/1.0-3 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/solvate/changelog.Debian.gz:17]
solvate 1.0-3 solvate-doc/1.0-3 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 1 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/solvate-doc/changelog.Debian.gz:17]
tardy 1.28-1 tardy/1.28-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 8 d/p/ [usr/share/doc/tardy/changelog.Debian.gz:11]
tcputils 0.6.2+git20120127.c28952d-0.1 tcputils/0.6.2+git20120127.c28952d-0.1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/tcputils/changelog.Debian.gz:9]
xbacklight 1.2.3-1 xbacklight/1.2.3-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 9 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/xbacklight/changelog.Debian.gz:23]
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus 1:1.6.0-1 xserver-xorg-video-cirrus/1:1.6.0-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 8 DEP5 [usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-cirrus/changelog.Debian.gz:40]
xserver-xorg-video-cirrus 1:1.6.0-1 xserver-xorg-video-cirrus/1:1.6.0-1 pedantic debian-changelog-line-too-short 8 DEP3 [usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-video-cirrus/changelog.Debian.gz:14]