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
ares 148+dfsg-1 ares/148+dfsg-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 6 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/ares/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]
ares 148+dfsg-1 ares/148+dfsg-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 6 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/ares/NEWS.Debian.gz:4]
ares 148+dfsg-1 ares/148+dfsg-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 6 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/ares/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
ares 148+dfsg-1 ares/148+dfsg-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 6 "found trailer where expected start of change data" [usr/share/doc/ares/NEWS.Debian.gz:7]
etbemon 1.4.3-1 mon/1.4.3-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 8 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/mon/NEWS.Debian.gz:13]
etbemon 1.4.3-1 mon/1.4.3-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 8 "found eof where expected more change data or trailer" [usr/share/doc/mon/NEWS.Debian.gz:14]
eye 1:11.24.8+ds-1 eye/1:11.24.8+ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:7]
eye 1:11.24.8+ds-1 eye/1:11.24.8+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 1:11.24.8+ds-1 eye/1:11.24.8+ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:8]
eye 1:11.24.8+ds-1 eye/1:11.24.8+ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
eye 1:11.24.8+ds-1 eye/1:11.24.8+ds-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "badly formatted heading line" [usr/share/doc/eye/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 7 "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 7 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:6]
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 7 "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 7 "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 7 "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 7 "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 7 "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 7 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/tome/NEWS.Debian.gz:10]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:13]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:15]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:14]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:5]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:6]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:4]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:7]
vasttrafik-cli 1.17-1 vasttrafik-cli/1.17-1 warning syntax-error-in-debian-news-file 1 "unrecognised line" [usr/share/doc/vasttrafik-cli/NEWS.Debian.gz:3]