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

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 05:42:10PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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

Yeah. If dpkg-dev really would mishandle that (which I can't reproduce)
that would be a serious bug IMHO. Please report it there.

Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig at debian.org>
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