Bug#563984: Detect obsolete versioned build dependencies

2010-01-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Moritz Muehlenhoff 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

Bug#563984: Detect obsolete versioned build dependencies

2010-01-06 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: lintian Version: 2.3.0 Severity: wishlist Dear lintian maintainers, 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