Bug#859659: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package raised for dbgsym packages from same source

2017-04-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 16:21 +, Niels Thykier wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 17:15:20 +0100 Luca Boccassi > wrote: > > Package: lintian > > Version: 2.5.50.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > TL;DR: Lintian reports the version-substvar-for-external-package > > error when the

Bug#859659: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package raised for dbgsym packages from same source

2017-04-05 Thread Niels Thykier
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 17:15:20 +0100 Luca Boccassi wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.5.50.1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > TL;DR: Lintian reports the version-substvar-for-external-package error when > the > "external package" in question is actually a dbgsym package generated by

Bug#859659: lintian: version-substvar-for-external-package raised for dbgsym packages from same source

2017-04-05 Thread Luca Boccassi
Package: lintian Version: 2.5.50.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, TL;DR: Lintian reports the version-substvar-for-external-package error when the "external package" in question is actually a dbgsym package generated by the same source package. I maintain a source package, dpdk [1], which buil