Bug#409099: lintian: debian/control::Depends check for missing commas
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> Severity: wishlist
> An example:
> debian/control
> Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} ${misc:Depends}
> SUGGESTION
> If possible, detect the missing commas in debain/control fields
> like Build-Depends and Depends. That is:
> * After a word or ending paren, a comma should follow
> * an exception: not enforced at the end of line.
Hm, doesn't check/fields already do a syntax check here? If not, it
certainly should, but I thought it already did.
Of course, if those substitutions expand to nothing, it will miss that
because the syntax check is done on the binary package.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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