Bug#409103: lintian: [Add new check] check debian/compat file against debian/control::Build-Depands(debhelper)
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.27
Severity: wishlist
NEW FEATURE DESCRIPTION
Read the value of debian/compat and verify that it matches the value
major version of debhelper announced in of debian/control::Build-Depands
AN EXAMPLE
[debian/control]
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.0), dpatch (>= 2.0)
[debian/compat]
4
OUTPUT SUGGESTION:
W: Mismatched version in debian/compat and debian/control::debhelper
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
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 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-5 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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