The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 7179bf83c803d0c421449d528889143b1937f215
Author: Russ Allbery r...@debian.org
Date: Sat Mar 20 17:48:14 2010 -0700
Improve native-package-with-dash-version wording
Rewrite the tag long description a bit more to be clearer, and add a
changelog entry.
diff --git a/checks/cruft.desc b/checks/cruft.desc
index f5ac35e..cfd6476 100644
--- a/checks/cruft.desc
+++ b/checks/cruft.desc
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ Info: Native packaging should only be used if a piece of
software was
the version number should not contain a Debian revision part.
.
Native source packages are sometimes created by accident. In most cases
- the reason is the location of the original source tarball. dpkg-source
- searches debian/changelog's VERSION in ../package_VERSION.orig.tar.gz.
- Check also mistakenly set '(native)' value in file debian/source/format.
+ the reason is the location of the original source tarball. For version
+ 1.0 source packages, dpkg-source determines whether they're non-native by
+ looking for a file named ttlt;package_lt;version.orig.tar.gz/tt
+ in the parent directory, where lt;version is the version from the most
+ recent ttdebian/changelog/tt entry. For version 3.0 packages, check
+ ttdebian/source/format/tt for an erroneous (native) package format.
Tag: non-native-package-with-native-version
Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 58ca579..ef5cd1d 100755
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ lintian (2.3.4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
contain substvars other than *:Depends substvars, since substvars
may be used to assemble the components of a dependency. Thanks,
Matthias Klose. (Closes: #573815)
+ * checks/cruft.desc:
++ [RA] Provide more information in native-package-with-dash-version
+ long description about how native packages can be created by
+ mistake. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #573839)
* checks/init.d:
+ [RA] Exclude symlinks to upstart-job from init script syntax checks.
Based on a patch by Jos Boumans. (Closes: #569492)
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