Bugzilla Bug 171962

Here is an example broken entry:

# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/x11-libs/libXinerama/ChangeLog,v 1.27
2007/03/22 02:18:21 joshuabaergen Exp $

  22 Mar 2007; Joshua Baergen <joshuabaergen@gentoo.org>
  +libXinerama-1.0.2.ebuild:
  Version bump.  Includes new documentation and some small code tweaks.

This is missing the 

*libXinerama-1.0.2 (22 Mar 2007) 

line. Having this line is important because emerge -pl libXinerama does not
work without it.

Created an attachment (id=114184) [details]
check_changelog.py

Here is the logic for checking ChangeLogs. Can be run like:

find /usr/portage/ -name "ChangeLog" | xargs python changelog.py

It seems the tree is full of broken entries atm:

betelgeuse@pena ~/python $ find /usr/portage/ -name "ChangeLog" | xargs python
changelog.py  | wc -l
2545

Created an attachment (id=114194) [details]
check_changelog.py

Handle package names with + in them.

Created an attachment (id=114220) [details]
check_changelog.py

Take package moves into account and check the date syntax for *foo-1.0 (date)
lines.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~betelgeuse/changelogs_syntax_errors.txt

As discussed on irc, I'd like to add 2 new repoman checks for this:

1) Fail if a new ebuild has been added without an appropriate ChangeLog entry.
2) Warn if there are broken ChangeLog entries for previously existing ebuilds.

(In reply to comment #4)
> 1) Fail if a new ebuild has been added without an appropriate ChangeLog entry.
> 2) Warn if there are broken ChangeLog entries for previously existing ebuilds.

 What is the status?

Do we really want to add more stuff into the current repoman incarnation? That
beast *really* needs to be rewritten.