Strange mock build failure due to typo

[Paul Howarth]

Hi,

today I have been preparing an update to perl-Math-Pari and came across 
a very strange build failure whilst doing a local mock build on a Fedora 
13 x86_64 host. My package built successfully on x86_64 but when I tried 
to build for i386, the build failed during %setup but without any 
diagnostics. The SRPM was installed but no attempt to install its build 
requirements was made. The root.log showed an exit status of 0 for all 
commands that had been run.

After much experimentation bisecting the changes I had made, I 
discovered that a typo in the changelog entry was the culprit: I had set 
the year to 2100 instead of 2010. So it would appear that somewhere in 
the mock/yum/rpm stack there may be a year 2038 problem waiting to bite 
us (though I suspect there may not be too many 32-bit builds happening 
by then).

Seriously though, it would be nice to have better diagnostics for this 
and perhaps an rpmlint check for changelog entries in the future?

Paul.