[Secure-testing-team] [patch 0/3] Syntax tweaks for data/CAN/list

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> There's a piece of syntax I don't understand.  What's the difference
> >> between
> >> 
> >>         - mysql-dfsg 4.0.18-4
> >> 
> >> and
> >> 
> >>         ! mysql-dfsg 4.0.18-6
> >> 
> >> ?  Is the "!" of any special significance?
> >
> > It's a typo, fix commited a minute ago.
> 
> But bin/checklist checks explicitly for it:
> 
>    elsif (/^\s+[!-]\s+(\S+)\s+(.*?)\s*$/) { # Deal with ...
> 
> Somehow I doubt that this is a mere typo.  Of course, I can replace
> all the "!"  entries with "-" if this syntax is just a minor variant.
> For now, I just ignore the difference.

It was historically used for denoting, whether an issue was fixed in
testing. They should all be converted to "-".

Cheers,
        Moritz