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
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