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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.27
Severity: wishlist
Please check the value of Build-Dpends for out of date *major* version numbers
when
--display-info is in effect. An example:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), dpatch (>= 1.0)
There are major new releases (debhelper 5, dpatch 2), which could be reported
as:
I: Out of date major version of debhelper (found 4.0.0, now: 5.0.42)
I: Out of date major version of dpatch (found 1.0, now: ...)
Hm, I think this could be done for 'Depends' as well to catch major
upgrade issues.
Jari
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.17-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.43-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.25 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-5 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.16.1-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-5 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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> Please check the value of Build-Dpends for out of date *major* version
> numbers when --display-info is in effect. An example:
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), dpatch (>= 1.0)
>
> There are major new releases (debhelper 5, dpatch 2), which could be
> reported as:
>
> I: Out of date major version of debhelper (found 4.0.0, now: 5.0.42)
> I: Out of date major version of dpatch (found 1.0, now: ...)
>
> Hm, I think this could be done for 'Depends' as well to catch major
> upgrade issues.
We explicitly don't want to do this because it would encourage people to
create unnecessarily tight dependencies when their packages work fine with
older versions.
There's a separate check for debhelper in particular that looks for
obsolete compat levels.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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