Bug#505857: lintian: false positive debian-watch-file-should-mangle-version
Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> 3.- Long term solution:
> Turn some portions of uscan into a perl module[1] and use it to extract the
> dversionmangle regex.
>
> If there are really so many cases out there where this bug occurs and
> people is desperate to have it fixed instead of overriding the warning
> until a proper fix is available, am willing to work on 2. Otherwise, I
> will be working on the pm part of 3 some time soon, which just like the
> checkbashisms as pm stuff will need to be integrated in lintian
> afterwards.
3 is definitely the right solution in my opinion.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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