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- Subject: lintian: Add INFO for over-precise version checks like debhelper (>= 4.0.0) when (>= 4) is enough
- From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:45:51 +0200
- Message-id: <20070114124551.8154.53758.reportbug@cante>
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.27 Severity: wishlist Perhaps an INFO could be displayed to notify about over-precise use of version number for certain packages. SUGGESTION - In case of development packages (Build-Depends), issue a INFO for certain programs if the verion number is too detailled. - The packages to check could include: debhelper - only major version is needed dpatch - .. same .. ... -- 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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- Subject: Re: Bug#409133: lintian: Add INFO for over-precise version checks like debhelper (>= 4.0.0) when (>= 4) is enough
- From: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de>
- Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:55:39 +0100
- Message-id: <87fxymh8vo.fsf@pindar.marcbrockschmidt.de>
- In-reply-to: <20070114124551.8154.53758.reportbug@cante> (Jari Aalto's message of "Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:45:51 +0200")
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Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes: > Perhaps an INFO could be displayed to notify about over-precise use of version > number for certain packages. > > SUGGESTION > > - In case of development packages (Build-Depends), issue a INFO > for certain programs if the verion number is too detailled. > - The packages to check could include: > > debhelper - only major version is needed > dpatch - .. same .. > ... Sorry, but this is useless. We could only check this reasonably for .0(.0) (and that's *never* a problem). There are good reason to depend on certain debhelper versions (which introduced new helpers, for example). Marc -- BOFH #364: Sand fleas eating the Internet cablesAttachment: pgpmzIWrC0y7T.pgp
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