lintian *does* check for incorrect build-depends fields:

Saturday, August 20. 2005

lintian does check for incorrect build-depends fields:

Junichi Uekawa blogged about syntatically incorrect Build-Depends fields - lintian already checks for this:

he@nahar:/tmp/he/lintian-test$ grep -A1 Build-Depends test/debian/control
Build-Depends: package > 4.0, something [hurd, i386], other, \
this

he@nahar:/tmp/he/lintian-test$ dpkg-source -b test
he@nahar:/tmp/he/lintian-test$ lintian *dsc
E: test source: multiline-field build-depends
E: test source: bad-relation build-depends: package > 4.0
E: test source: bad-relation build-depends: something [hurd

The first error (multiline-field) is more common than the other two - though people think that they are allowed (and most tools can cope with them), the Debian policy only allows multiple lines for the Description.

Posted by Marc Brockschmidt at 11:41 | Comment (1)

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Is it worthwhile considering changing policy to allow multiline fields? I've been wondering about that for a while, since I have an irrational dislike of overly long lines (and more practically would like to turn on word-wrap when editing control files, but then have to keep working around not wrapping the Depends and Build-Depends lines).

I suppose where one would have to start is to go through all of the control parsers and make sure they support wrapped lines.

#1 Russ Allbery (Homepage) on 2005-08-20 20:03

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