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Bug#466425: marked as done (lintian: Please warn about debhelper compat level)

Your message dated Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:58:29 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#466425: lintian: Please warn about debhelper compat level
has caused the Debian Bug report #466425,
regarding lintian: Please warn about debhelper compat level
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.28
Severity: wishlist

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Based on #466423, I think it would be nice for lintian to warn about
packages using a debhelper compatibility other than whatever was latest
in the most recent stable release.

For example, take Etch, which had a debhelper compatibility level of 5
at the time of its release.  If you built a package with debhelper
compat of 4, then that should cause a warning as it is using an outdated
compatibility level.  Likewise, if it were to use compatibility level 6
(recently available), it should at the very least generate an info, or
preferrably a warning.

This is just an idea, so please feel free to change it, or even to close
the bug outright if you feel it is wrong.

Regards,

- -Roberto

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

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                   4.17-5etch3       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                 2.4.3-6           The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7etch1      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:53:40AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> For the compatibility level 6 part, I personally agree (and it
>> certainly makes backporting easier), but I know some other maintainers
>> don't and use V6 as a matter of course, particularly for new packages.
>> I'm not sure that it's appropriate in this case for lintian to be used
>> as a way of trying to force consensus.  Basically, I don't want to
>> irritate people with tags that they don't agree with and aren't ever
>> going to follow, since it makes fewer people use lintian at all.

> OK.  That seems fair.  Please feel free to close the report.

Closing per submitter.

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

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