Bug#917566: lintian: please warn about non-supported previous versions

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

tags 917566 - moreinfo
thanks

Hi Dmitry,

> Probably I missing something oblivious, but still: if you know that
> version X is latest

[…]

I think it was me who was missing oblivious; your pseudocode helped
clarify what you were after so thanks for persevering.

>   grep -v '#' $maintscript | grep -F "$v" ; then
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can we make this bit smarter? Or rather; can we? I'm wondering if
we might be grepping for "1.2-3" but the script uses "dpkg --
compare-versions $X -gte 1.2" or something like that..

> But issue is not sysvinit-specific. I have number of packages, that have
> code in maintainer scripts, that deals with upgrades from specific
> versions

Can you link to some concrete examples on this bug report if you
have a moment?


Best wishes,

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