Bug#409114: lintian: Suggestion to check Build-Depends versions with --display-info
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> Severity: wishlist
> Please check the value of Build-Dpends for out of date *major* version
> numbers when --display-info is in effect. An example:
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), dpatch (>= 1.0)
> There are major new releases (debhelper 5, dpatch 2), which could be
> reported as:
> I: Out of date major version of debhelper (found 4.0.0, now: 5.0.42)
> I: Out of date major version of dpatch (found 1.0, now: ...)
> Hm, I think this could be done for 'Depends' as well to catch major
> upgrade issues.
I don't understand why I'd want this for one of my packages. I add
versioned dependencies when some functionality I need is added in a
particular version. I only care that that functionality is available.
Why would I make my dependencies unnecessarily tight when I don't need any
of the newer features?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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