Bug#486682: lintian: warn if wildcards in .install could let a SONAME bump go unnoticed?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

tags 486682 + wontfix
thanks

Hi,

I think this may have been useful in the past, but debhelper compat 5+
largely makes it redundant[1].  Since compat level 4 and lower are all
deprecated this problem is (in theory) non-existing.
  Admittedly, in practise[2] people are a bit slow in adopting the new
compat levels, but a new tag most likely not give us a lot of
improvement (if they don't listen to Lintian about bumping compat
levels, why should they listen to it about some "SONAME wildcard" issue?).

Anyhow, I am tagging it wontfix for now.  If anyone is actually
interested in implementing this or strongly feel we should implement it,
feel free to contest the "wontfix"-tag.

~Niels

[1] man 7 debhelper:

"""
These are the available compatibility levels:

[...]

v5  Changes from v4 are:

[...]

-       dh_install errors out if wildcards expand to nothing.
"""

[2]
http://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version.html