[Bug 1303603] Re: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable

[Mattia Rizzolo]

As Niels explained last year this is the expected behavior.
If you're rebuilding a package from Debian while targeting a Ubuntu release you can as well change the target Distribution (and you're suppose to if you're going to upload to Ubuntu, indeed the lintian message is totally right).

For those using pbuilder, just run lintian _inside_ the chroot, then
you'll get the right lintian rightly configure for whatever distribution
and release you're building for; there is an example hook for that too.

** Changed in: lintian (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix

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Title:
   bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable

Status in lintian package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  from a pbuilder run on a trusty host

  Setting up lintian (2.5.22ubuntu1) ...
  Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu3) ...
  +++ lintian output +++
  E: libcapi20-3 changes: bad-distribution-in-changes-file unstable

  that's pretty shocking.  The information about valid distro release
  pockets should be carved out to the distro-info package (bug 1012459)

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