Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@debian.org> writes: > I would like to suggest a lintian test, which checks if any > versioned build dependencies exist where the versions are > lower than the version in oldstable.
> While this is technically not a problem, it's cruft which > lintian could detect. The difficulty is that Lintian has no idea what packages are available in oldstable. That requires archive-wide knowledge, which Lintian by and large doesn't have, except for some specific bits of information that we pull and update only during releases. One of Lintian's design goals is to be self-contained, in that if the same version of Lintian is run on the same version of the package, you will always get the same tags. This also ensures that Lintian can be run off-line. I think to do this we'd have to include essentially a stripped version of the Packages file from oldstable to have the version number information available, and I'm a bit leery of including that much extra data. I think this is a good check, but I think it's a check that would be better done via an archive-wide scan similar to debcheck rather than via Lintian. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
