Bug#360711: lintian: [lintian-info] improve diagnostics of package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.16
Severity: minor
An example run:
# echo "W: foo source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1" | lintian-info
W: edb source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1
N:
N: The debhelper compatibility version used by this package (either
N: declared in debian/compat or in debian/rules) is marked as deprecated
N: by the debhelper developer. You should really consider using a newer
N: compatibility version.
N:
The problem is that neither debian/compat exists or DH_COMPAT is defined
int debian/rules. Please consider using message like:
N: The debhelper compatibility version used by this package is
N: marked as deprecated by the debhelper developer. You should
N: really consider using a newer compatibility version. Possible
N: causes: 1) content of debian/compat 2) DH_COMPAT is defined in
N: debian/rules 3) debian/control::Buil-Depends does not include
N: version number for debhelper, like (>= 4.0.0)
It was a little difficult to find out, that the problem lied in
debian/control::Buil-Depends
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060117-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.17 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060322 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- 5.8.8-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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