Package: lintian Version: 2.5.3 Severity: normal It is possible these days to compress .deb data components with xz; however, installing the resulting packages requires dpkg (>= 1.15.6). Within Debian, that's no big deal, as stable (squeeze) has 1.15.8.x; however, propagation to Ubuntu fails without a corresponding Pre-Depends: setting, as their current long-term-support stable release (lucid) merely has 1.15.5.6ubuntuX. AIUI, Ubuntu should be able to relax that policy next April or so; until then, though, it would be great if Lintian could catch such cases itself and give immediate feedback. (As it is, the issue may not surface until an affected package hits testing, from which Ubuntu draws; the resulting churn is particularly painful given that the prime candidates for XZ compression tend to be large.)
Could you please add a check along those lines (perhaps cribbed from Ubuntu)? Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.21.90.20111004-2 ii bzip2 1.0.5-7 ii diffstat 1.54-1 ii file 5.09-2 ii gettext 0.18.1.1-5 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.25 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.62-2 ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.1.1 ii libemail-valid-perl 0.185-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.90-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 ii liburi-perl 1.59-1 ii locales 2.13-21 ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 ii patchutils 0.3.2-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.12.4-6 ii unzip 6.0-5 lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.21.90.20111004-2 ii dpkg-dev 1.16.1.1 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-1 ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-2 ii man-db 2.6.0.2-2 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20110809-3 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
