Bug#345487: lintian: Add warning when Build-Depend on version number like 1.23-1 (should be 1.23)
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.14
Severity: wishlist
I've been doing a couple of backports recently, and one error I frequently had to deal with were Build-Dependencies that include the debian revision number unnecessarily.
I.e. they depend on somelib (>= 1.23-1) while there never was a 1.23-0
but it is a best practice for backports to use 1.23-0backport1 (so they will be upgraded when possible)
The check is easy, I guess emitting a warning on any version number ending
in -1 is appropriate. There may be a few cases where this warning is
incorrect (e.g. there was a NMU which introduced a broken .h file, and this
was fixed in the -1 revision by the maintainer) but they're very unlikely
I think.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20051214-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.11 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.15-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.1+20050828 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.7-10 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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