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