Merge branch 'release-v1.50' into matrix-org-hotfixes

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages b/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages

index 3a9a2d257c..4d34e90703 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages
+++ b/scripts-dev/build_debian_packages
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ DISTS = (
     "debian:bullseye",
     "debian:bookworm",
     "debian:sid",
-    "ubuntu:bionic",  # 18.04 LTS (our EOL forced by Py36 on 2021-12-23)
     "ubuntu:focal",  # 20.04 LTS (our EOL forced by Py38 on 2024-10-14)
     "ubuntu:hirsute",  # 21.04 (EOL 2022-01-05)
     "ubuntu:impish",  # 21.10  (EOL 2022-07)
diff --git a/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment b/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment

index af4de345df..c764011d6a 100755
--- a/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment
+++ b/scripts-dev/check-newsfragment
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ echo "--------------------------"
 echo
 
 matched=0
-for f in $(git diff --name-only FETCH_HEAD... -- changelog.d); do
-    # check that any modified newsfiles on this branch end with a full stop.
+for f in $(git diff --diff-filter=d --name-only FETCH_HEAD... -- changelog.d); do
+    # check that any added newsfiles on this branch end with a full stop.
     lastchar=$(tr -d '\n' < "$f" | tail -c 1)
     if [ "$lastchar" != '.' ] && [ "$lastchar" != '!' ]; then
         echo -e "\e[31mERROR: newsfragment $f does not end with a '.' or '!'\e[39m" >&2