Bug#573815: missing-separator-between-items error is too strict
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> Most of the time, exactly that pattern is a latent bug that can cause
> unexpected FTBFS after build helper changes because it's something like:
> ${shlibs:Depends} ${misc:Depends}
> What you're doing here is quite a bit rarer than such a mistake. Take a
> look at:
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-separator-between-items.html
> gcc-defaults is the only package where this isn't a clear bug. Because of
> that, lowering the severity or certainty doesn't seem like a good idea to
> me.
Actually, looking at that again, an even better fix: it looks like all the
bugs caught by this which have substvars involve substvars that look like
*:Depends. Maybe we should special-case all subsvars that aren't
*:Depends and not issue the tag for that. That would fix gcc-defaults.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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