Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.36.1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hello,
When it comes to to relative package dependencies, I grew into the
habit to make them backports-friendly, i.e. use version numbers with
the tilde character appended. For reasons of simplicity even when they
are very likely never used. So I prefer to write
Depends: foo (>> 1.0~)
alternatively: ">= 1.0~" instead of
Depends: foo (>= 1.0)
which by the way also allows me to avoid the >= and <= operators at
all, different story.
However, lintian does not appreciate this approach: Since I use
Build-Profiles in one of my packages, I added a dependency on
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20141010~)
which triggers the
restriction-formula-with-debhelper-without-debhelper-version
warning.
Would you mind relaxing check a bit? The patch below worked for me
although a few places in checks/fields.pm might deserve an according
change, too.
Christoph
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.1.6 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.25.1-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.60-1
ii file 1:5.22+15-2
ii gettext 0.19.4-1
ii hardening-includes 2.7
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.2
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.49-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.2
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.196-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-8
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.12-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.69-1
ii man-db 2.7.2-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6
ii t1utils 1.38-4
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.2
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.20.2-6
ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.2
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 1.13-1
-- no debconf information
diff --git a/checks/control-file.pm b/checks/control-file.pm
index 32d2f8e..37757ff 100644
--- a/checks/control-file.pm
+++ b/checks/control-file.pm
@@ -359,14 +359,14 @@ sub run {
my $build_all = $info->relation('build-depends-all');
my $build_conflicts_all = $info->relation('build-conflicts-all');
tag 'restriction-formula-without-versioned-dpkg-dev-dependency'
- unless ($build_all->implies('dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14)'));
+ unless ($build_all->implies('dpkg-dev (>= 1.17.14~)'));
tag 'restriction-formula-with-versioned-dpkg-dev-conflict'
if ($build_conflicts_all->implies_inverse('dpkg-dev (<< 1.17.14)'));
# if the package uses debhelper then it must require and not
# conflict with version >= 9.20141010
if ($build_all->implies('debhelper')) {
tag 'restriction-formula-with-debhelper-without-debhelper-version'
- unless ($build_all->implies('debhelper (>= 9.20141010)'));
+ unless ($build_all->implies('debhelper (>= 9.20141010~)'));
#<<< no tidy, tag name too long
tag 'restriction-formula-with-debhelper-with-conflicting-version'
#>>>
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