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.