* Niels Thykier <[email protected]>, 2011-11-10, 20:46:
It is possible these days to compress .deb data components with xz; however, installing the resulting packages requires dpkg (>= 1.15.6). Within Debian, that's no big deal, as stable (squeeze) has 1.15.8.x; however, propagation to Ubuntu fails without a corresponding Pre-Depends: setting, as their current long-term-support stable release (lucid) merely has 1.15.5.6ubuntuX. AIUI, Ubuntu should be able to relax that policy next April or so; until then, though, it would be great if Lintian could catch such cases itself and give immediate feedback.
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This sounds like a serious/certain (E) tag on an Ubuntu, but what about Debian? Do we ignore the tag, since it is not an issue or do we emit the tag anyway? In the latter case, what severity do we give it?
Sounds like a candidate for "Severity: pedantic". -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
