Bug#732246: lintian: False positive for rc-version-greater-than-expected-version with "+dev" in version number

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Thanks for the bug report.

* Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>, 2013-12-15, 17:56:
> W: xen-tools: rc-version-greater-than-expected-version 4.4+dev > 4.4 
> (consider using 4.4~dev)
>
> Both, the warning and especially the advice are wrong here.
>
> Relevant changelog extracts causing this:
>
> ---snip---
> xen-tools (4.4+dev-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
>
>  * Apply patch by Adrian C. (anrxc) to allow to override hooks in
>    /usr/share/xen-tools/*.d/ with hooks in /etc/xen-tools/hooks.d/.
>    Thanks! (Also add /etc/xen-tools/hooks.d/ to debian/dirs.)
>  * Ignore cover_db directory in t/perl-syntax.t.
>
> -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:20:43 +0100
>
> xen-tools (4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
>
>  * New upstream release
> […]
> ---snap---
>
> I'd either exclude the "dev" suffix completely from that test or check 
> the second last changelog entry, if the "+" is justified.
>
> There are even some upstream developers (namely zsh) who version real 
> release candidates as "$PREVIOUS_VERSION-test-$N". See for example 
> http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/main/z/zsh/unstable_changelog
> (This gave IIRC no lintian warning, maybe due to the used word "test", 
> but is close enough IMHO to be worth mentioned as second example.)

The only strings that currently trigger 
rc-version-greater-than-expected-version are "rc", "alpha", "beta", 
"pre", "preview", "prerelease" and "dev". I agree that we should delete 
"dev" from that list.

--
Jakub Wilk