Re: Russ Allbery > retitle 539066 [checks/shared-libs] symbols-file-contains-debian-revision > false positives when upstream version contains dash > > > But I have had a change of heart. Although it would be friendlier to > > handle such versions well, the version number in question was better > > replaced with a less dash-heavy one, and I suspect that in practice > > that will almost always be the case. So please close this bug or mark > > it wontfix, or set the submitter to yourself if you want it fixed. :) > > Thanks for letting us know! I think that Lintian could still be somewhat > more intelligent than this (for instance, the version number that you > opened this bug report about is recognizably not ending in a Debian > revision), so I'll take ownership of it and leave it open.
I just hit that one in libpg-query. The upstream version is 17-6.2.0, so I need to put the full 17-6.2.0-1 into the symbols file. I think lintian should just not bother to emit this tag at all if the upstream version contains a dash. There is nothing to warn about in this case. Christoph
