Package: lintian Version: 2.115.3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
thanks for 'lintian' I love and use it a lot. Today I'm taking issue with the "anticipated-repack-count" tag, as lintian complained that i was using a version "0.9.20~dfsg1-1" (nevermind the tilde for now). i take offense, because the previous upload of the package in question was "0.9.20~dfsg0-6", so incrementing the repack-count to "1" is correct (imho). it definitely is not an "anticipated" repack count, but a counter in use. i guess (not having checked), that the lintian tag simply checks if the upstream version ends with "dfsg1". i think a better strategy would be to check whether the repack count incremented with regard to the previous upload. that is: | old version| new version| reaction | reason | |------------|------------|----------|----------------------------------| | 0.19… | 0.20+dfsg0 | WARN | new upstream (no reason to count)| | 0.19… | 0.20+dfsg1 | WARN | new upstream (no reason to count)| | 0.20 | 0.20+dfsg1 | WARN | first repack (no reason to count)| | 0.20+dfsg0 | 0.20+dfsg1 | ok | consecutive repack | thanks for making Debian a better place.
