Re: suidregister support

[Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl>]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> [not submitted as a bug report, rather a question]
> 
> Package: lintian
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> It would be nice, if lintian can parse the Depends/Recommends etc
> lines and check for bad version numbers. Not sure if this issue should 
> be addressed in lintian or in packages like dpkg or debhelper.
> 
> A dependency like libstdc++2.9-dev (>= +2.91.57) isn't detected. Or is 
> this impossible?

If you're thinking of the recent example, it was "(>+ 2.91.57)", which
lintian did indeed flag.

However, "+2.91.57" is a valid version number, so lintian can't complain.
It has no way to know that it's not a version number actually in use.

Such a mistake will probably show up much later, on the lintian depcheck
page, as a package whose dependencies can't be fulfilled.  (+2.91.57 is
larger than any numeric version.)

Richard Braakman