The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 8a449756a047cde8410baa0bb39923bcf7973475
Author: Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org>
Date: Fri Dec 26 23:17:10 2008 -0800
Skip version substvar checks for dynamic package names
* checks/version-substvars:
+ [RA] Skip version substvar checks when the dependency is on a
package whose name is formed by expanding substvars at build time.
Thanks, Bastian Blank. (Closes: #507763)
diff --git a/checks/version-substvars b/checks/version-substvars
index 9103693..cb3d47d 100644
--- a/checks/version-substvars
+++ b/checks/version-substvars
@@ -68,8 +68,12 @@ foreach (@control_data) {
$pkg2 = $1;
$substvar_strips_binNMU = ($2 eq 'source:Version');
+ # We can't test dependencies on packages whose names are
+ # formed via substvars expanded during the build. Assume
+ # those maintainers know what they're doing.
if (not -f "control/$pkg2/architecture") {
- tag "version-substvar-for-external-package", "$pkg1 ->
$pkg2";
+ tag "version-substvar-for-external-package", "$pkg1 ->
$pkg2"
+ unless ($pkg2 =~ /\$\{\S+\}/);
next;
}
$pkg2_is_any = (slurp_entire_file("control/$pkg2/architecture")
!~ m/^all$/);
@@ -93,4 +97,8 @@ foreach (@control_data) {
1;
+# Local Variables:
+# indent-tabs-mode: t
+# cperl-indent-level: 8
+# End:
# vim: syntax=perl sw=4 ts=4 noet shiftround
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4dfb732..2fb12b5 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ lintian (2.1.3) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
- Detect watch files specifying an upstream version for an older
changelog entry when the current changelog entry has a newer
upstream version.
+ * checks/version-substvars:
+ + [RA] Skip version substvar checks when the dependency is on a
+ package whose name is formed by expanding substvars at build time.
+ Thanks, Bastian Blank. (Closes: #507763)
* data/changelog-file/ubuntu-dists:
+ [RA] New shared list of Ubuntu distributions.
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