Bug#495296: lintian fails checking resctrict versions in debian/control source package
Miguelangel Jose Freitas Loreto <miguelangel.freitas@gmail.com> writes:
> Using lintian from Etch, lintian report the next message:
>
> E: dtrx source: missing-build-dependency python-support (>= 0.3)
>
> Using lintian from sid:
>
> N: Processing changes file dtrx_6.2-1_i386.changes ...
> N: Processing 2 packages...
> N: ----
> N: Processing source package dtrx (version 6.2-1) ...
> N: ----
> N: Processing binary package dtrx (version 6.2-1) ...
> Lintian don't check the specific versions in the field Build-Depends
Because no version of python-support older than 0.5.6 ever released as
part of a Debian release. Versioning that dependency would only matter
for an unstable system that hasn't been updated since the etch release,
and the project does not require that dependencies be correct for such a
case. We only support upgrades from the last stable release.
Lintian will additionally recommend supporting upgrades from oldstable if
it's very easy to do so, but upgrading from intermediate unstable versions
is more than is really reasonable to ask of package maintainers.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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