Bug#466425: lintian: Please warn about debhelper compat level
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compat of 4, then that should cause a warning as it is using an outdated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.
- -- no debconf information
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