Package: lintian Version: 2.5.65 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
The recent "Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped" has highlighted the fact that the epoch is not included in the names of the various package files (source and binary) and that this can potentially cause problems in various situations (both within Debian and for our downstreams). Due to the filenames we are already implicitly requiring that all versions used in a source package name's history are unique even once the epochs are stripped off (e.g. a given $upstream-$debianrev must be unique and not differ only in the epoch). Perhaps lintian could check for this by comparing the current version with the historical ones in debian/changelog. Raphael notes in [1]: > Note however that such a lintian check should not consider changelog > entries indicating another source package name. Which seems wise. Thanks, Ian. [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00102.html [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/02/msg00144.html -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, armel, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.29.1-12 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.4 ii file 1:5.32-1 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-4 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.33 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.4 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.96-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.1-3 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.72-2 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.24-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2 ii man-db 2.7.6.1-4 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.26.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.29.1-12 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.4 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.47-1 -- no debconf information
