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

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi Sebastian,

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:55 AM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
>
> So please warn against Build-Depends-Package
> lines of this form.

You are welcome to provide input on tag name, description, severity
and appearance. (Fellow maintainers, please chime in too.) The
proposed fix is located at:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/merge_requests/270

For http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libd/libdvdread/libdvdread_6.0.1-1.dsc
Lintian produces:

    W: libdvdread source: package-placeholder-in-symbols-file
debian/libdvdread4.symbols, line 2

You can try it at home. Just clone the branch in the MR and run something like:

    frontend/lintian -C debian/symbols ../libdvdread_6.0.1-1.dsc

> But lintian could probably check if the package specified under
> Build-Depends-Package contains the corresponding .so symlink.

Your suggestion is helpful but was not implemented. (This bug relates
to package sources, not installation packages.) If you would like to
see it in Lintian please clone this bug and retitle. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner