Bug#407529: debian/control spaces not parsed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps

[Russ Allbery]

Mark Purcell <msp at debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.27
> Severity: wishlist

> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 04:58, eric.castelnau at cg974.fr wrote:
>> I found out that there was a typo in Build-Depends field of debian/control 
>> that prevent dpkg-checkbuilddeps to work properly : 

> Thanks Eric,

> I have fixed in svn and this should be reflected in the next upload of
> asterisk.

>> There is a space between '(' and '>' :
>> 
>> dpkg ( >= 1.13.19)

> Perhaps, lintian could parse for this as a standard check?

This is a bug in dpkg-checkbuilddeps, I believe.  Policy allows whitespace
there.  (I don't object to adding a lintian check, but from a lintian
perspective this is just aesthetics since either form is valid.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>