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Bug#576083: marked as done (lintian: debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends (>= 7.0.50~))

Your message dated Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:26:16 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#576083: lintian: debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends (>= 7.0.50~)
has caused the Debian Bug report #576083,
regarding lintian: debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends (>= 7.0.50~)
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.4
Severity: minor


When using in debian/rules:

	override_<CH_COMMAND>:

Lintian displays warnings:

	debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends (>= 7.0.50~)

if debian/control reads:

	Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7)

SUGGESITON

The warning is naturally correct, but taken at face value, the version
number (while it may be technically correct) is not very descriptive
to the reader:

	Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 7.0.50~)

The debhelper is already in version of 7.4.15 in Debian/testing, so
perhaps the message could be relaxed to a nearest "round" number:

	debhelper-overrides-need-versioned-build-depends (>= 7.1)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.20.1-2          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            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.17-10           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                2.10.2-6          Embedded GNU C Library: National L
ii  man-db                 2.5.7-2           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                        2.5.7-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> writes:

> For the regular user, the difference between 7.0.50 and 7.1 is
> immaterial. He just wants the lintian to be happy.

> It would be possible for someone doing backporting to look at the
> debian/changelog:

>     * debian/rules
>       - (Build-Depends): update debhelper to 7.1 due to overrides_*.

> Just a suggestion, please close if you see it fit.

Okay.  I can kind of see where you're coming from, but I think Lintian
should recommend the exact dependency required, so I'm going to go ahead
and close this one.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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