Thursday 12 July 2018

Re: Inconsistencies in package versions for stable releases

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 12:37:33PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote:
> The Ubuntu security team has a shell-script function that helps us keep
> the version strings consistent that may serve as a blueprint for such a
> lint:
>
> https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-security/ubuntu-security-tools/trunk/view/head:/package-tools/check-source-package#L623

Ah, thanks! FWIW, I wrote this a while ago for the lint:

https://git.launchpad.net/usd-importer/tree/gitubuntu/versioning.py#n356

The lint tool is mostly missing high level abstractions and tests at the
moment. Some of the core pieces are there already.

Robie