On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:22:37AM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>
> > > I mention it specifically as I'm not 100% confident this is correct
> > > and Lintian somewhat-correctly complained about a "missing" version
> > > (to wit, 1:1.11.22-1 its technically missing).
> >
> > Where does Lintian parse the data about existing releases? How does it
> > know that 1:1.11.22-1 is missing?
>
> debian/changelog. Lintian, as a strict rule, does not query external
> sources.
>
> (I should probably clarify; missing *sequential* releases.)
Got it. From my PoV Lintian should probably just waive that check
unless the target distro for the upload is "unstable".
Cheers,
Moritz
