Package: devscripts Version: 2.16.13 Severity: wishlist File: /usr/bin/bts Perhaps check if the user has given extra arguments to version, and at least return non-zero.
$ bts version 999999 1.2.3; echo $? bts version 2.16.13 Copyright (C) 2001-2003 by Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org>. Modifications Copyright (C) 2002-2004 by Julian Gilbey <j...@debian.org>. Modifications Copyright (C) 2007 by Josh Triplett <j...@freedesktop.org>. It is licensed under the terms of the GPL, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 0 That way programs that use "version" instead of the intended "found" would find out earlier.