Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Python Team <debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org>
I just hit two packages which gave me the following warning when pkg_resources tried to load them: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py:116: PkgResourcesDeprecationWarning: 1.12.1-git20200711.33e2d80-dfsg1-0.6 is an invalid version and will not be supported in a future release warnings.warn( (and a different version number in the other case). The upstream Python developers have a clear idea of what is accepted as a version number, and it appears in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pkg_resources/_vendor/packaging/version.py (in the python3-pkg-resources package) in the definition of VERSION_PATTERN. The version number that is being examined is that stored in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/*.egg-info or /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/*.egg-info/PKG-INFO on the line beginning "Version: ". This appears to be a fairly rare bug: only two packages on my system have this issue (and I've just reported bugs against them). Nonetheless, if it is easy, it would be nice to have a lintian test for it. Best wishes, Julian
