Lintian Reports

E version-substvar-for-external-package

All reports of version-substvar-for-external-package for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

The first package has a relation on the second package using a dpkg-control substitution variable to generate the versioned part of the relation. However the second package is not built from this source package. Usually this means there is a mistake in the package name in this dependency.

Note that this warning can occur if the package name used in the relation contains a typo. In this case, correcting the typo should remove the warning.

Severity: important, Certainty: certain

Check: version-substvars, Type: source

Evolution of the version-substvar-for-external-package Lintian tag over the past 366 days:

The beforementioned graph for the version-substvar-for-external-package tag

Emitted (non-overridden): 11, overridden: 10, total: 21

The package names link to the relevant maintainer page and the corresponding report for the source package. The links go to the full maintainer report page, which includes info and experimental tags and overridden tags, rather than the default page that shows only errors and warnings.

0ad 0.0.23-1 (source) overridden

apt 1.6.3 (source)

apt 1.7.0~alpha2 (source)

binutils-msp430 2.22~msp20120406-5.1 (source)

efl 1.20.7-6 (source) overridden

flare-engine 0.19-3 (source) overridden

rust-lazy-static 1.0.1-1 (source)

tarantool-lts 1.5.5.37.g1687c02-1 (source)

zephyr 3.1.2-1 (source)