Bug#833608: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package, but external package is versioned provides
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.45
Severity: normal
In trying to simplify the APT build system, I changed the library package
libapt-pkg5.0 and libapt-inst2.0 to provide a versionless-name:
Package: libapt-pkg5.0
Provides: libapt-pkg (= ${binary:Version})
So I can depend on it like this:
Package: libapt-pkg-dev
Depends: libapt-pkg (= ${binary:Version})
This however leads to a version-substvar-for-external-package error
from lintian, as it does not understand that the package name is a
versioned provides.
We previously had a substvar that ${libapt-pkg-name}, but I wanted
to get rid of substvars as far as possible, as that involves non-declarative
stuff in rules.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.26.1-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.61-1
ii file 1:5.28-4
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1
ii hardening-includes 2.8+nmu2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b5
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.58-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2
ii libdata-alias-perl 1.20-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.10
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.200-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-10
ii libperl5.22 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.22.2-3
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.41-6+b1
ii man-db 2.7.5-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-1
ii perl 5.22.2-3
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.10
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.22.2-3
ii perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl] 5.22.2-3
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.26.1-1
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lintianrc changed [not included]
-- no debconf information
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