Bug#583777: lintian: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper seems to ignore depends ending in a tilde

Package: lintian Version: 2.4.1 Severity: minor Despite the following line in debian/control of mp4h: Build-Depends: debhelper (= 5~), […] lintian argues as follows: W: mp4h source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper 5 I thought build-dependencies on debhelper should end

Bug#583777: lintian: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper seems to ignore depends ending in a tilde

Axel Beckert a...@debian.org writes: Despite the following line in debian/control of mp4h: Build-Depends: debhelper (= 5~), […] lintian argues as follows: W: mp4h source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper 5 I thought build-dependencies on debhelper should end in a