Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

2009-09-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert writes: > Lintian is following debhelper's behaviour here, so if a package > triggers debhelper-compat-not-a-number it means that debhelper's > behaviour might not be the one expected either (depends mostly on how > perl turns a string with non numeric characters into a number).

Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

2009-09-07 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi Niels, Niels Thykier wrote: > Package: lintian > Version: 2.2.14 > Severity: minor > > Hi > > Looking at junitperf's lintian warnings/errors[1] I noticed that lintian > said "debhelper-compat-not-a-number", followed by deprecated compat > version 4. It turns out that the compat file had a t

Bug#545430: Better warning/error when compat contains spaces.

2009-09-06 Thread Niels Thykier
Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: minor Hi Looking at junitperf's lintian warnings/errors[1] I noticed that lintian said "debhelper-compat-not-a-number", followed by deprecated compat version 4. It turns out that the compat file had a trailing whitespace, which triggered this. I think