Bug#833608: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package, but external package is versioned provides

[Forwarding to #833608 after "unarchive" & "found"...] - Original message - From: Ximin Luo To: Chris Lamb , 833...@bugs.debian.org Cc: Subject: Re: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package, but external package is versioned provides Date: Monday, 25 March 2019 10:37 PM Control:

Bug#833608: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package, but external package is versioned provides

tags 833608 + pending thanks Thanks all. Fixed in Git, pending upload: https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/83c2c79535714c8457697ea567aec645db0fdc27 checks/version-substvars.pm| 4 debian/changelog |

Bug#833608: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package, but external package is versioned provides

Package: lintian Version: 2.5.89 Followup-For: Bug #833608 Hi, this is also affecting some debcargo-generated rust packages. Attached is an example. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500,

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: