Bug#660655: check for deprecated version dependencies in shlibs/symbols
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.4
Severity: wishlist
Seen in debian-release:
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> BTW, in version number comparisons '>' confusingly means greater or
> equal (and is deprecated for that reason), so I suspect the shlibs
> should really say >= 3.9.5-3 or >= 3.9.6 to also account for the
> 3.9.5-2+b2 binary NMU on armhf.
Jay Berkenbilt <qjb@debian.org> wrote:
> Oops, yeah, I knew that at one time and had forgotten. I made the same
> mistake in the control file, but lintian caught it. I updated my notes
> for shlibs files to remind myself for the future.
This seems like something we could detect and warn about. symbols files
probably have the same issue.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-5
ii bzip2 1.0.6-1
ii diffstat 1.55-2
ii file 5.10-1
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.25+b1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1.2
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.187-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.59-1
ii locales 2.13-26
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-3
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-7
ii unzip 6.0-5
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.2
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-1+b1
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2
ii man-db 2.6.0.2-3
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3
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