Package: lintian Version: 2.5.45 Severity: normal In trying to simplify the APT build system, I changed the library package libapt-pkg5.0 and libapt-inst2.0 to provide a versionless-name:
Package: libapt-pkg5.0 Provides: libapt-pkg (= ${binary:Version}) So I can depend on it like this: Package: libapt-pkg-dev Depends: libapt-pkg (= ${binary:Version}) This however leads to a version-substvar-for-external-package error from lintian, as it does not understand that the package name is a versioned provides. We previously had a substvar that ${libapt-pkg-name}, but I wanted to get rid of substvars as far as possible, as that involves non-declarative stuff in rules. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.26.1-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.61-1 ii file 1:5.28-4 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1 ii hardening-includes 2.8+nmu2 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b5 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.58-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-2 ii libdata-alias-perl 1.20-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.10 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.200-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-10 ii libperl5.22 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.22.2-3 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.71-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.41-6+b1 ii man-db 2.7.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii perl 5.22.2-3 ii t1utils 1.39-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.10 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.22.2-3 ii perl-modules-5.22 [libautodie-perl] 5.22.2-3 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.26.1-1 ii dpkg-dev 1.18.10 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/lintianrc changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- Debian Developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev When replying, only quote what is necessary, and write each reply directly below the part(s) it pertains to (`inline'). Thank you.