[publican-list] "make srpm-en-US" fails, "bad date in %changelog"

[Jeffrey Fearn]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   not sure if this is a known issue but with a brand new generic book
> via "create_book --name Test_Book":
> 
> $ make srpm-en-US
> ...
> END: xml-en-US Fri Jul 10 06:34:05 EDT 2009
> START: test-en-US Fri Jul 10 06:34:05 EDT 2009
> warning: failed to load external entity "tmp/en-US/xml/Feedback.xml"
> ...
> END: spec-en-US Fri Jul 10 06:34:06 EDT 2009
> START: srpm-en-US Fri Jul 10 06:34:06 EDT 2009
> error: bad date in %changelog: 1.0
> make: *** [srpm-en-US] Error 1
> $
> 
>   i thought that might have been this:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=478950
> 
> but it doesn't look like it.

The dates in the Revision History have to match the format expected by rpm.

The beta uses a perl date manipulation routine to refortmat this, so any 
valid date should work.

Cheers, Jeff.

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