Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

[Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.32.0
Severity: wishlist

From deb-symbols(5):
| Build-Depends-Package
|   It indicates the name of the “-dev” package associated to the
|   library and is  used  by  dpkg-shlibdeps  to  make  sure  that  the
|   dependency generated is at least as strict as the corresponding build
|   dependency (since dpkg 1.14.13).

In libdvdread 6.0.1-1, the following line was added to "fix" the
lintian info on the missing Build-Depends-Package:

| * Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE#

This causes the package name of the shared library to be substituted,
and not the -dev package. So please warn against Build-Depends-Package
lines of this form.

Cheers


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (650, 'unstable-debug'), (650, 'unstable'), (601, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental-debug'), (600, 'buildd-unstable'), (600, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                     2.33.1-2
ii  bzip2                        1.0.8-2
ii  coreutils                    8.30-3+b1
ii  diffstat                     1.62-1+b1
ii  dpkg                         1.19.7
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.19.7
ii  file                         1:5.37-6
ii  gettext                      0.19.8.1-9
ii  gpg                          2.2.17-3
ii  intltool-debian              0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl              0.1.36+b2
ii  libarchive-zip-perl          1.67-1
ii  libberkeleydb-perl           0.62-1+b1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl         0.48-1
ii  libcgi-pm-perl               4.44-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl       0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                0.41-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                 1.19.7
ii  libemail-valid-perl          1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl         0.08-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl       0.34-1
ii  libio-async-loop-epoll-perl  0.20-1
ii  libio-async-perl             0.74-1
ii  libipc-run-perl              20180523.0-2
ii  liblist-compare-perl         0.53-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl       0.416-1+b5
ii  libmldbm-perl                2.05-2
ii  libmoo-perl                  2.003006-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl            0.108-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl     0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl             0.30-1
ii  libtype-tiny-perl            1.004004-1
ii  liburi-perl                  1.76-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl           2.25-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl         0.80+repack-2+b1
ii  man-db                       2.9.0-1
ii  patchutils                   0.3.4-2+b1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]    5.30.0-9
ii  t1utils                      1.41-3
ii  xz-utils                     5.2.4-1+b1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b6

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b4
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.55-1

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-- 
Sebastian Ramacher

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