Package: lintian Version: 2.1.0 Severity: minor This is a bug report corresponding to Bastian Blank's recent mail to the mailing list.
Currently, lintian.d.o groups packages by source package name and binary package version, which is not correct for packages where the binary package version may be unrelated to the source package version. linux-modules-extra-2.6 has this problem. The packages should instead be grouped by source package and version. To do this, we'll need to change the format of the binary package list to add an additional field, source package version. In unpack/list-binpkg, we'll need to parse the Source field out of the Packages file. If it's not present, we can assume it matches the binary package, including in version. If it doesn't contain a version, we can assume the version matches. Otherwise, we'll need to parse it for the version of the source package. Then, the reporting harness will need to be updated to use the new source version field for package display. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.23 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libipc-run-perl 0.80-2 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-18 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.2-3 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]