Bug#563984: marked as done (Detect obsolete versioned build dependencies)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #563984,
regarding Detect obsolete versioned build dependencies
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Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.0
Severity: wishlist
Dear lintian maintainers,
I would like to suggest a lintian test, which checks if any
versioned build dependencies exist where the versions are
lower than the version in oldstable.
While this is technically not a problem, it's cruft which
lintian could detect.
Cheers,
Moritz
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.5 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8 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 libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.50-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-8 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 01:58:17PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I would like to suggest a lintian test, which checks if any
> > versioned build dependencies exist where the versions are
> > lower than the version in oldstable.
>
> > While this is technically not a problem, it's cruft which
> > lintian could detect.
>
> The difficulty is that Lintian has no idea what packages are available in
> oldstable. That requires archive-wide knowledge, which Lintian by and
> large doesn't have, except for some specific bits of information that we
> pull and update only during releases.
>
> One of Lintian's design goals is to be self-contained, in that if the same
> version of Lintian is run on the same version of the package, you will
> always get the same tags. This also ensures that Lintian can be run
> off-line. I think to do this we'd have to include essentially a stripped
> version of the Packages file from oldstable to have the version number
> information available, and I'm a bit leery of including that much extra
> data.
>
> I think this is a good check, but I think it's a check that would be
> better done via an archive-wide scan similar to debcheck rather than via
> Lintian.
I understand. Let's close this bug against lintian, then.
Cheers,
Moritz
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