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Bug#409114: marked as done (lintian: Suggestion to check Build-Depends versions with --display-info)

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and subject line Bug#409114: Suggestion to check Build-Depends versions with --display-info
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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Please check the value of Build-Dpends for out of date *major* version numbers when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   I: Out of date major version of debhelper (found 4.0.0, now: 5.0.42)
   I: Out of date major version of dpatch (found 1.0, now: ...)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.

Jari

-- 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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> Please check the value of Build-Dpends for out of date *major* version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    I: Out of date major version of debhelper (found 4.0.0, now: 5.0.42)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    I: Out of date major version of dpatch (found 1.0, now: ...)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.

We explicitly don't want to do this because it would encourage people to
create unnecessarily tight dependencies when their packages work fine with
older versions.

There's a separate check for debhelper in particular that looks for
obsolete compat levels.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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