Bug#495431: Bogus missing-dep-for-interpreter errors with ocamlrun
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 01:10:45PM +0200, Stephane Glondu wrote:
> Lintian reports missing-dep-for-interpreter for many OCaml-related packages:
>
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-dep-for-interpreter.html
>
> This is because packages that need ocamlrun usually depend on a
> virtual package providing it (embedding the ABI version in its name).
> I've thought of several ways to fix this:
>
> 1. Take into account virtual packages in Dep::implies
> 2. Allow usage of regular expressions for dependencies in %interpreters
> 3. Add special case for ocamlrun before issuing missing-dep-for-interpreter
>
> Attached is a patch implementing solution 3.
Hmm, isn't that like a reversal of d1a22f3e1a9503f401e517dcf38ebe44c3d4cce3 ?
commit d1a22f3e1a9503f401e517dcf38ebe44c3d4cce3
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Mon Apr 21 22:00:37 2008 +0000
+ [RA] Expect unversioned dependencies on OCaml packages rather than
versioned dependencies since the version changes frequently and
unversioned dependencies are what people are already using. Thanks,
Hideki Yamane. (Closes: #476417)
diff --git a/checks/scripts b/checks/scripts
index e018c89..c490467 100644
--- a/checks/scripts
+++ b/checks/scripts
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ our %interpreters =
make => [ '/usr/bin', 'make | build-essential' ],
mawk => [ '/usr/bin' ],
ocamlrun => [ '/usr/bin',
- join (' | ', map { "$_-3.10.0" }
- qw/ocaml-base-nox ocaml-base ocaml-nox ocaml/)
- ],
+ 'ocaml-base-nox | ocaml-base | ocaml-nox | ocaml' ],
pagsh => [ '/usr/bin', 'openafs-client | heimdal-clients' ],
parrot => [ '/usr/bin' ],
perl => [ '/usr/bin', '' ],
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d3105cd..1a6f9d4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ lintian (1.23.47) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
files do not need to be executable even if they look like scripts.
+ [RA] Add clisp, procmail, and rrdcgi, and another way interpretors
are templated in *.in files.
+ + [RA] Expect unversioned dependencies on OCaml packages rather than
+ versioned dependencies since the version changes frequently and
+ unversioned dependencies are what people are already using. Thanks,
+ Hideki Yamane. (Closes: #476417)
* checks/shared-libs:
+ [RA] Move the default ld.so search path into data. Drop obsolete
/usr/lib/libg++-dbg, /usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d, and libc5 compatibility
Gruesse,
--
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/
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