Bug#345487: lintian: Add warning when Build-Depend on version number like 1.23-1 (should be 1.23)

2006-01-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 01:56:43AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > Hallo Frank, > > Hmm, since most dependencies are generated via shlibs it might be better > > to only test the shlibs files for constructs like that. Because that's > > the maintainer that can actually do something about it... > > I

Bug#345487: lintian: Add warning when Build-Depend on version number like 1.23-1 (should be 1.23)

2006-01-01 Thread Erich Schubert
Hallo Frank, > Hmm, since most dependencies are generated via shlibs it might be better > to only test the shlibs files for constructs like that. Because that's > the maintainer that can actually do something about it... I'm only aware of this issue with *build* dependencies. I guess it may happen

Bug#345487: lintian: Add warning when Build-Depend on version number like 1.23-1 (should be 1.23)

2006-01-01 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 01:51:07AM +0100, Erich Schubert wrote: > I've been doing a couple of backports recently, and one error I frequently > had to deal with were Build-Dependencies that include the debian revision > number unnecessarily. > I.e. they depend on somelib (>= 1.23-1) while there ne

Bug#345487: lintian: Add warning when Build-Depend on version number like 1.23-1 (should be 1.23)

2005-12-31 Thread Erich Schubert
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.14 Severity: wishlist I've been doing a couple of backports recently, and one error I frequently had to deal with were Build-Dependencies that include the debian revision number unnecessarily. I.e. they depend on somelib (>= 1.23-1) while there never was a 1.23-0 b