Lintian tag: syntax-error-in-debian-news-file

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

While parsing the NEWS.Debian file, a syntax error was found.

Please refer to Common errors in changelog entries (Section 6.3.4) in the
Debian Developer's Reference for details.

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

Affected packages

source version binary level tag count information
etbemon 1.4.2-1 mon/1.4.2-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/mon/NEWS.Debian.gz:13]
etbemon 1.4.2-1 mon/1.4.2-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "found eof where expected more change data or trailer" [usr/share/doc/mon/NEWS.Debian.gz:14]
eye 1:10.30.11~ds-1 eye/1:10.30.11~ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:7]
eye 1:10.30.11~ds-1 eye/1:10.30.11~ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "found trailer where expected start of change data" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:10]
eye 1:10.30.11~ds-1 eye/1:10.30.11~ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]
eye 1:10.30.11~ds-1 eye/1:10.30.11~ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:8]
eye 1:10.30.11~ds-1 eye/1:10.30.11~ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:9]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:8]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:10]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:7]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:4]
tome 2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 tome/2.41-ah~0.git.20200131-1.4 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:6]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:15]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:14]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:13]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:7]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:4]
vasttrafik-cli 1.13-2 vasttrafik-cli/1.13-2 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:6]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:17]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:6]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:15]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:11]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:13]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:19]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:9]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 9 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:6]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:17]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:19]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:11]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:15]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:9]
zoneminder 1.36.35+dfsg1-1 zoneminder-doc/1.36.35+dfsg1-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/zoneminder-doc/NEWS.Debian.gz:13]