From 8a017b427971b1687667f494b440361c9e99ec01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arohan Ajit <aajit@chirpn.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 04:58:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] resolved flake8 in utils

---
 utils/gitlog2changelog.py | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/utils/gitlog2changelog.py b/utils/gitlog2changelog.py
index 2626321d6fb..758b142196b 100755
--- a/utils/gitlog2changelog.py
+++ b/utils/gitlog2changelog.py
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
             author = authorList[1]
             author = author[0 : len(author) - 1]
             authorFound = True
-        except:
-            print("Could not parse authorList = '%s'" % (line))
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Could not parse authorList = '{line}'. Error: {e!s}")
 
     # Match the date line
     elif line.startswith("Date:"):
@@ -76,8 +76,8 @@
             date = dateList[1]
             date = date[0 : len(date) - 1]
             dateFound = True
-        except:
-            print("Could not parse dateList = '%s'" % (line))
+        except Exception as e:
+            print(f"Could not parse dateList = '{line}'. Error: {e!s}")
     # The Fossil-IDs are ignored:
     elif line.startswith("    Fossil-ID:") or line.startswith("    [[SVN:"):
         continue

From 6632b6551a8e8a38edd9f48e2620635e01a715b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arohan Ajit <aajit@chirpn.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 05:18:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] updated .flake8

---
 .flake8 | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.flake8 b/.flake8
index 8a4bf960bf5..32021622d7d 100644
--- a/.flake8
+++ b/.flake8
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ per-file-ignores =
     # E741 ambiguous variable name 'l'
     __init__.py: F401, F403
     lib/init/grass.py: E722, F821, F841
-    utils/gitlog2changelog.py: E722, E712
     man/build_check_rest.py: F403, F405
     man/build_full_index_rest.py: F403, F405
     man/parser_standard_options.py: F403, F405