Re: What does "Malformed Build-Depends / broken syntax" from debcheck mean?
Re: Helmut Grohne
> The syntax is ok. It is the debcheck tool that does not yet understand
> it. More packages face this problem:
> https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sid&list=main-only-malformed%2dbuild%2ddepends&arch=ANY
The source is at
https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/-/blob/master/data/debcheck/debcheck?ref_type=heads
if anyone wants to write a patch.
> > Moreover, according to several bugs opened against qa.debian.org, the tool
> > doesn't seem actively maintained anymore
> > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=918714).
Not sure anyone is actually using it in the sense that it does catch
problems that wouldn't be spotted otherwise.
It had been around since forever even when I started doing QA things.
I think that was 20 years ago :D
Christoph
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