Bug#944260: lintian: Add a detection/tag for when compat is >> 10 and cdbs in build-depends

[Thomas Ward <teward@ubuntu.com>]

Possibly.  Perhaps I should go the Policy route and inquire whether we should consider CDBS obsolete by later versions of Debian policy...

Thanks for the response though!  :)

Thomas

On 11/6/19 6:03 PM, Chris Lamb wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> > Nope, all CDBS packages compat >> 10 FTBFS if using the cdbs debhelper 
> > rulesets with a straight cdbs include in debian/rules.
> >       
> … then I'm afraid I don't see any value in a Lintian check; package
> maintainers will surely see this FBTFS first.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>