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



Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> writes:

> 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).

When Perl converts a string to a number, it always ignores leading and
trailing whitespace.  Lintian should probably do the same thing.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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