Bug#1003353: tagging 1012326, tagging 1012690, tagging 1012464, tagging 1001317, tagging 1012221, tagging 1011807 ...

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi Andreas,

Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 19/06/2022 16.27, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > please explain what makes you think that this issue is present in
> > lintian 2.114.0 as currently in Debian Unstable.
> 
> The BTS does not understand made up versions (i.e. versions not in the
> archive),

Yes, I'm aware of that.

> so this bug shows up e.g. as a RC bug in stable.

Ah! I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the explanation.

I mostly consider these non-official versions to be informational for
humans. Didn't expect such an impact.

> So limiting this bug with an incorrect version to sid+ was the
> smaller lie ...

Well, I prefer the tagging much more than the wrong version, even if
it's the same lie. That way there's more information in there for us
humans.

And yes, that weird versioning the previous maintainers started and
even claim that it is semantic versioning despite it's not semantic
versioning (https://semver.org/) at all, will likely be killed, once I
understand how lintian.d.o works (or not) nowadays.

		Regards, Axel
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