Hi Salvatore, On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:45:24 +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso <car...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 02:30:23PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > When running "cme check dpkg" in the gcc-mingw-w64 source, I get > > failures related to the use of '+' in a package name: > > > > Warning in 'control binary:"gcc-mingw-w64" Recommends:0' value > > 'g++-mingw-w64': package g is unknown. Check for typos if not a virtual > > package. Configuration item 'control binary:"gcc-mingw-w64" Recommends:0' > > has a wrong value: dependency 'g++-mingw-w64' does not match grammar > > > > As far as I'm aware this package name is perfectly legal. > > Unfortunately my perl-fu doesn't extend far enough to fix this... > > This is correct[1]. According to Debian policy "5.6.1 Source", package > names must consist only of lower case letters (a-z), digits (0-9), > plus (+) and minus (-) signs, and periods (.). They must be at least > two characters long and must start with an alphanumeric character. > [...] > > I have commited a tentative fix for this to our git repo, but would be > good if Dominique Dumont can have a look at it before releasing. > > p.s.: During playing around with gcc-mingw-w64 noticed there is also > missing support for Built-Using field. Reported this as #696768[2]. > > [2]: http://bugs.debian.org/696768
Thanks! I had noticed the Built-Using error as well, but hadn't got round to filing a bug for it. Regards, Stephen
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