Bug#944155: lintian: Version format vs source format mismatch tags disappeared

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Guillem,

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:54 PM Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Perhaps we
> can turn this report around on making the tag name more clear instead?

What would you say if Lintian were to catch the parsing error and
issue the old tags---the ones with clearer names---when those
conditions apply?

When those conditions are not identified, Lintian could perhaps issue
other helpful tags and only fall back on the bland
'malformed-debian-changelog-version' as a last resort.

Kind regards
Felix