Bug#539066: lintian: [checks/shared-libs] misleading message for unknown dash-containing version in symbols file
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retitle 539066 [checks/shared-libs] symbols-file-contains-debian-revision false positives when upstream version contains dash
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> But I have had a change of heart. Although it would be friendlier to
> handle such versions well, the version number in question was better
> replaced with a less dash-heavy one, and I suspect that in practice
> that will almost always be the case. So please close this bug or mark
> it wontfix, or set the submitter to yourself if you want it fixed. :)
Thanks for letting us know! I think that Lintian could still be somewhat
more intelligent than this (for instance, the version number that you
opened this bug report about is recognizably not ending in a Debian
revision), so I'll take ownership of it and leave it open.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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