Bug#522384: [checks/debhelper]: Warn if compat level requires higher version than the build-depends
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:47:16 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I agree that it's bad style to omit the version dependency. I think
>> we should probably add a new tag for this case. I'm not sure about
>> severity level; wishlist or pedantic, I think.
> It seems to be minor instead. wishlist or pedantic would have been
> more appropriate IMO, for compat levels <= 5.
I extended the existing tag rather than creating a new one since the
debhelper man page is rather explicit about this and that was a lot
easier. I suppose we could split it off; it did catch quite a few
packages.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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