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possible-missing-colon-in-closes

All reports of possible-missing-colon-in-closes for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

To close a bug in the Debian changelog, the word "closes" must be followed by a colon. This entry looked like it was intended to close a bug, but there's no colon after "closes".

Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.4 (Debian changelog: debian/changelog) for details.

Severity: important, Certainty: possible

Check: changelog-file, Type: binary

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