Bug#1001399: lintian: adjust backports-upload-has-incorrect-version-number for ubuntu

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

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 7:24 AM Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> wrote:
>
> However, in Ubuntu we just started up again the process, and the new
> policy says to append ~bpo$UBU_VERSION.1, with $UBU_VERSION 20.04,
> 18.04, 20.10, etc.

Right now, Lintian's profiles just enable or disable tags. I am not
opposed to expanding their capabilities, but is it the right approach?

Should the version string for a Ubuntu package also be acceptable even
if Lintian ran on Debian?

Can Lintian tell the target OS without looking at the version string?
Maybe the changelog (except that would not work for UNRELEASED)?

Thanks!

Kind regards
Felix Lechner