Bug#594254: lintian: native-package-with-dash-version has incorrect description of <version>
Package: lintian
Version: 2.4.3ubuntu1~lucid1
Severity: normal
The extended description of the native-package-with-dash-version tag
states:
"
Native source packages are sometimes created by accident. In most cases
the reason is the location of the original source tarball. For version
1.0 source packages, dpkg-source determines whether they're non-native
by looking for a file named <package>_<version>.orig.tar.gz in the
parent directory, where <version> is the version from the most recent
debian/changelog entry. For version 3.0 packages, check
debian/source/format for an erroneous "(native)" package format.
"
In fact <version> is the upstream version _not_ the version from the
most recent debian/changelog entry.
See
http://people.debian.org/~mpalmer/debian-mentors_FAQ.html#native_vs_non_native
which is where I found out that lintian was wrong which enabled me to
correctly build the package I was working on.
Thank you for making lintian it has been very very useful.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers lucid-updates
APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-backports'), (500, 'lucid')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20.1-3ubuntu6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1build1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-5ubuntu1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8ubuntu3 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-per 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2ubuntu2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.52-1 module to manipulate and access UR
ii locales 2.11+git20100304-3 common files for locale support
ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.1-8ubuntu2 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 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager
Best regards,
Daniel
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