devtools: warn about old release notes updates

Touching release notes should only be for the current version.

Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index db4c7d8..ba43f84 100755 (executable)
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -198,6 +198,15 @@ check_internal_tags() { # <patch>
        return $res
 }
 
+check_release_notes() { # <patch>
+       rel_notes_prefix=doc/guides/rel_notes/release_
+       IFS=. read year month release < VERSION
+       current_rel_notes=${rel_notes_prefix}${year}_${month}.rst
+
+       ! grep -e '^--- a/'$rel_notes_prefix -e '^+++ b/'$rel_notes_prefix "$1" |
+               grep -v $current_rel_notes
+}
+
 number=0
 range='origin/main..'
 quiet=false
@@ -289,6 +298,14 @@ check () { # <patch> <commit> <title>
                ret=1
        fi
 
+       ! $verbose || printf '\nChecking release notes updates:\n'
+       report=$(check_release_notes "$tmpinput")
+       if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+               $headline_printed || print_headline "$3"
+               printf '%s\n' "$report"
+               ret=1
+       fi
+
        if [ "$tmpinput" != "$1" ]; then
                rm -f "$tmpinput"
                trap - INT