Bug#277187: lintian: Support for bzipped archives
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 02:51:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 03:14:32AM +0200, Cyril Bouthors wrote:
> > Package: lintian
> > Version: 1.23.3
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> > When using bzipped archive, lintian reports:
> >
> > W: libapache-mod-tsunami source: native-package-with-dash-version
> >
> > because the file extension is hardcoded:
> >
> > if ((not -f "${pkg}_${version}.diff.gz") and
> > ($version =~ /-/) and ($version !~ /-0\.[^-]+$/) ) {
> > tag_warn("native-package-with-dash-version");
> > }
> >
> > We should also check for ${pkg}_${version}.diff.bz2
>
> I don't think so. dpkg-source doesn't support those, nor does the
> archive. lintian should not be in advance of the toolchain.
Agree with that, still the way lintian checks for it is very
implementation-depending, and could and should be made more general
easily.
It is a very low priority thing though, as the current way works for all
supporsed sources.
--Jeroen
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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