Bug#838997: lintian: checks/init.d: Check for initscripts that source /lib/lsb/init-functions without declaring the corresponding dependency on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6).

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Vincent Bernat <bernat@debian.org>, 2016-10-11, 08:44:
> We put 3.0-6, then we have to update to 3.2-14 for status_proc. Then we 
> discover there may be people with backports so we update to 3.2-14~. This 
> makes a lot of people in Debian work for people that do not exist (those with 
> distributions older than oldoldstable that install packages from unstable

It's worse than that:

The last release that didn't have lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) is lenny, i.e. (old)^3stable.
The last release that didn't have lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) is sarge, i.e. (old)^5stable.

Lintian has no business being THAT pedantic, especially not in a tag with 
severity:important. I will remove the version constraint.

(If anybody really wants, they can implement a separate tag with 
severity:pedantic. But IMHO that's not worth the trouble.)

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Jakub Wilk