Bug#648350: lintian: please check for XZ compression w/o pre-depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6)

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, 2011-11-10, 20:46:
> > It is possible these days to compress .deb data components with xz; 
> > however, installing the resulting packages requires dpkg (>= 1.15.6). 
> > Within Debian, that's no big deal, as stable (squeeze) has 1.15.8.x; 
> > however, propagation to Ubuntu fails without a corresponding 
> > Pre-Depends: setting, as their current long-term-support stable 
> > release (lucid) merely has 1.15.5.6ubuntuX. AIUI, Ubuntu should be 
> > able to relax that policy next April or so; until then, though, it 
> > would be great if Lintian could catch such cases itself and give 
> > immediate feedback.
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> This sounds like a serious/certain (E) tag on an Ubuntu, but what about 
> Debian?  Do we ignore the tag, since it is not an issue or do we emit 
> the tag anyway?  In the latter case, what severity do we give it?

Sounds like a candidate for "Severity: pedantic".

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Jakub Wilk