Bug#409099: lintian: debian/control::Depends check for missing commas

[Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > An example:
> 
> > 	debian/control
> > 	Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} ${misc:Depends}
> 
> > SUGGESTION
> 
> > If possible, detect the missing commas in debain/control fields
> > like Build-Depends and Depends. That is:
> 
> > * After a word or ending paren, a comma should follow
> > * an exception: not enforced at the end of line.
> 
> Hm, doesn't check/fields already do a syntax check here?  If not, it
> certainly should, but I thought it already did.
> 
> Of course, if those substitutions expand to nothing, it will miss that
> because the syntax check is done on the binary package.

dpkg-gencontrol will also error out if the resulting field is not correct
however there are no check prior to substvars expansion.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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