Package: lintian Version: 2.5.112 Severity: normal Hi,
my package rss-bridge was just tagged with hyphen-in-upstream-part-of-debian-changelog-version. The description text reads: N: The upstream version in the debian changelog contains one ore more N: hyphens. While that is okay according to policy, some tools may croak. Why is this a lintian warning at all? Either we know tools that fail to properly parse Debian versions and in this case we should: - file bugs against the tools in question - list these tools in the lintian warning Or there are no tools which fail to properly parse Debian versions in which case this lintian tag is useless. Assuming it's the first case, could you please at least extend the warning message with a list of tools that do not implement proper Debian version parsing? I don't think it's useful to fix a problem by curing the symptoms instead of the cause. If packages now change their versioning style in response to this lintian tag, then lintian has successfully helped to hide a bug in other software projects. Thanks! cheers, josch
