Bug#889816: lintian: Complain when epoch has been bumped but upstream version did not go backwards
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.73
Severity: wishlist
When the last changelog entry implements an epoch bump, we want to make
sure that the epoch is justified by the fact that the upstream version
is lower than the former entry in the changelog.
e.g when you switch from E¹:U¹-D¹ to E²:U²-D² (E=epoch, U=upstream
version, D=Debian revision) you want to ensure that U¹ > U².
This is similar in spirit to epoch-change-without-comment but would
be a somewhat stronger subset (maybe Error while the other is Warning?)...
It could only be ignored if overriden while the other would
not trigger as soon as some sort of explanation seems to be given
in the changelog.
I believe both tags should trigger on the source package only.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers oldoldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.30-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.0.5
ii file 1:5.32-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.39-1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-4+b1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.73-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.69+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.0-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.1-4+b1
ii t1utils 1.41-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1
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