Package: lintian Severity: wishlist In #966409 I detected that libjpeg-turbo added symbols without including the epoch in the symbols version numbers. It would be great if lintian could detect when a version number in the symbols files does not match one of the upstream or Debian versions in the Debian changelog files. Versions older than the oldest version in the Debian changelog file can be ignored of course. I'd suggest structuring this as two complaints with two severities: * At error level, probably ftp-master rejected, for when a symbols version is just missing the epoch. So a check that any of the versions in the Debian changelog file would match the symbol versions if the epoch were present in the symbols version. * At pedantic level, for when symbols version just doesn't match any of the versions in the Debian changelog file. Maybe later once there is an indication of how many false positives there are, this can then be elevated to warning level. Both of these need to take into account that the versions in the symbols file might be missing the Debian revision or they might have a tilde appended to the Debian revision in order to allow backports. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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