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Bug#456286: lintian: debian-revision-not-well-formed mentions old binNMU style



Kobayashi Noritada <nori1@dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.41
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> The description for debian-revision-not-well-formed says:
>
> N:   The debian version part (the part after the -) should consist of one
> N:   to three dot-separated parts: one for maintainer release, two for
> N:   source-NMU, three for binary NMU.
>
> The part about the binNMU version numbers is outdated (Bug#437925
> reported a similar issue for source-nmu-has-incorrect-version-number and
> has already been fixed in 1.23.35).  Since I don't know whether a newer
> "+bx" style binNMU version numbering should be supported in this check,
> here I provide a patch to just drop support for older "x.x.x" style
> numbering from both the regular expression and the description.

I've applied the description change for the next version.  I think the
code is fine; three-part Debian revisions will get a more specific warning
a few lines down for being an old-style binary-NMU version number.

Thanks!

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



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