Matthias Klose wrote: > [not submitted as a bug report, rather a question] > > Package: lintian > Severity: wishlist > > It would be nice, if lintian can parse the Depends/Recommends etc > lines and check for bad version numbers. Not sure if this issue should > be addressed in lintian or in packages like dpkg or debhelper. > > A dependency like libstdc++2.9-dev (>= +2.91.57) isn't detected. Or is > this impossible?
If you're thinking of the recent example, it was "(>+ 2.91.57)", which lintian did indeed flag. However, "+2.91.57" is a valid version number, so lintian can't complain. It has no way to know that it's not a version number actually in use. Such a mistake will probably show up much later, on the lintian depcheck page, as a package whose dependencies can't be fulfilled. (+2.91.57 is larger than any numeric version.) Richard Braakman
