On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 10:43:27AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Looks like it might be possible to for test with lintian. > I presume it's OK to add the implicit 0: to non-epoch depends? > If so, lintian could complain whenever a dependency is specified on a > package with an epoch, unless the versions specified also include an > epoch, and if you really meant the pre-epoch version, you could just add > the 0: to get rid of the warning. This means the output of lintian will vary depending on what versions of the package are visible in the local packages list. AIUI that's something the lintian maintainers try very hard to avoid. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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