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Bug#409133: marked as done ([aesthetics] diagnose overprecise debhelper dependencies)

Your message dated Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:55:39 +0100
with message-id <87fxymh8vo.fsf@pindar.marcbrockschmidt.de>
and subject line Bug#409133: lintian: Add INFO for over-precise version checks like debhelper (>= 4.0.0) when (>= 4) is enough
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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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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
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