Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

[Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>]

Hi Niels,

Niels Thykier wrote:

> 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).

Lintian is following debhelper's behaviour here, so if a package triggers
debhelper-compat-not-a-number it means that debhelper's behaviour might not
be the one expected either (depends mostly on how perl turns a string with
non numeric characters into a number).

I guess the right thing to do here is to add a bit more details to the tag
info.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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