Bug#570408: lintian: weak-library-dev-dependency false positive when -dev depends on -common

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: normal

Hi,

I've got this error in libgtk2.0-dev:

E: gtk+2.0 source: weak-library-dev-dependency libgtk2.0-dev on libgtk2.0-common
N: 
N:    The given package appears to be a shared library -dev package, but the
N:    dependency on what seems to be a corresponding shared library package
N:    does not force the same package version. To ensure that compiling and
N:    linking works properly, and that the symlinks in the -dev package point
N:    to the correct files in the shared library package, a -dev package
N:    should normally use (= ${binary:Version}) for the dependency on the
N:    shared library package.

However the shared library is in libgtk2.0-0, and the -dev -> -0 dependency
is correct. Since this is a false positive, maybe the heuristics could
be improved.

Cheers,
Emilio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20-6            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.47-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.15.5.6          Debian package development tools
ii  file                   5.04-1.1          Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.17-9            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       1.2000-1          collection of modules to manipulat
ii  liburi-perl            1.52-1            module to manipulate and access UR
ii  locales                2.10.2-5          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                 2.5.6-5           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-11         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                        2.5.6-5    on-line manual pager

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