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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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