Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

2009-09-07 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: minor Hi Looking at junitperf's lintian warnings/errors[1] I noticed that lintian said debhelper-compat-not-a-number, followed by deprecated compat version 4. It turns out that the compat file had a trailing whitespace, which triggered this. I think

Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

2009-09-07 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Niels, Niels Thykier wrote: Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: minor Hi Looking at junitperf's lintian warnings/errors[1] I noticed that lintian said debhelper-compat-not-a-number, followed by deprecated compat version 4. It turns out that the compat file had a trailing

Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

2009-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert geiss...@debian.org writes: Lintian is following debhelper's behaviour here, so if a package triggers debhelper-compat-not-a-number it means that debhelper's behaviour might not be the one expected either (depends mostly on how perl turns a string with non numeric characters