Package: lintian Version: 2.5.19 Severity: normal Hi,
I'm developing a non-native package as both, Upstream and Debian package maintainer. It's common that I've not yet decided what will be the new upstream version number and hence add "+dev" to the previous release's upstream version number. But in that case, lintian always considers this to be something like a release candidate: W: xen-tools: rc-version-greater-than-expected-version 4.4+dev > 4.4 (consider using 4.4~dev) Both, the warning and especially the advice are wrong here. Relevant changelog extracts causing this: ---snip--- xen-tools (4.4+dev-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Apply patch by Adrian C. (anrxc) to allow to override hooks in /usr/share/xen-tools/*.d/ with hooks in /etc/xen-tools/hooks.d/. Thanks! (Also add /etc/xen-tools/hooks.d/ to debian/dirs.) * Ignore cover_db directory in t/perl-syntax.t. -- Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:20:43 +0100 xen-tools (4.4-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release […] ---snap--- I'd either exclude the "dev" suffix completely from that test or check the second last changelog entry, if the "+" is justified. There are even some upstream developers (namely zsh) who version real release candidates as "$PREVIOUS_VERSION-test-$N". See for example http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/main/z/zsh/unstable_changelog (This gave IIRC no lintian warning, maybe due to the used word "test", but is close enough IMHO to be worth mentioned as second example.) -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (899, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.12-trunk-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.24-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-5 ii diffstat 1.57-1 ii file 1:5.14-2 ii gettext 0.18.3.1-2 ii hardening-includes 2.4 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-7 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.35-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.17.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.192-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.03-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.33-1+b2 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.06~01-2 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.60-1 ii man-db 2.6.5-2 ii patchutils 0.3.2-3 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.18.1-5 ii t1utils 1.37-2 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libautodie-perl 2.21-1 ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.18-1+b3 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.18.1-5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.17.5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-1+b1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87mwk23veu....@nemo2.deuxchevaux.org