Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: minor
Hi
Looking at junitperf's lintian warnings/errors[1] I noticed that lintian said
"debhelper-compat-not-a-number", followed by deprecated compat version 4. It
turns out that the compat file had a trailing whitespace, which triggered this.
I think lintian should either have a separate tag for this or at least have the
tag info updated to include that whitespaces triggers this error.
Alternatively lintian should simply ignore whitespaces in compat during this test
(this is what it does on the deprecated compat version test anyway).
~Niels
[1] http://lintian.debian.org/maintainer/pkg-java-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org.html#junitperf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.19.51.20090723-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-7 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.6-1 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.19.51.20090723-1 Binary utilities that support mult
pn libtext-template-perl <none> (no description available)
ii man-db 2.5.6-1 on-line manual pager
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