Bug#647080: lintian: maintainer-address-malformed error occurs after "Old Changelog:" line

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.3
Severity: normal


I had a pre- intent to package (ITP) maintainer, who did not want
to publish his email address. His changelog entries looked like this:
I did not want to loose the previous history, but I am not authorized
to change the address.

Naturally, this resulted in maintainer-address-malformed errors,
as is correct.
I added a line like this before the problematic entries:

Old Changelog:

But the maintainer-address-malformed errors did not go away.

They said on debian.mentors that I should file a bug against lintian.


Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.21.90.20111025-1
ii bzip2 1.0.5-7
ii diffstat 1.54-1
ii file 5.09-2
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.25
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1.1
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.185-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.59-1
ii locales 2.13-21
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.12.4-6
ii unzip 6.0-5

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.1
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-1
ii libtext-template-perl <none>
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3







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