Bug#407529: debian/control spaces not parsed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps
Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> Severity: wishlist
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 04:58, eric.castelnau@cg974.fr wrote:
>> I found out that there was a typo in Build-Depends field of debian/control
>> that prevent dpkg-checkbuilddeps to work properly :
> Thanks Eric,
> I have fixed in svn and this should be reflected in the next upload of
> asterisk.
>> There is a space between '(' and '>' :
>>
>> dpkg ( >= 1.13.19)
> Perhaps, lintian could parse for this as a standard check?
This is a bug in dpkg-checkbuilddeps, I believe. Policy allows whitespace
there. (I don't object to adding a lintian check, but from a lintian
perspective this is just aesthetics since either form is valid.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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