Bug#528003: lintian: build-depends-without-arch-dep should ignore debian patch systems
Daniel Moerner <dmoerner@gmail.com> writes:
> Lintian produces this informational point:
>
> I: build-depends-without-arch-dep quilt
>
> And explains that the only packages that should be listed in the
> Build-Depends are those needed to run the clean target, like
> debhelper. Unless I am missing something, quilt or dpatch will always
> need to be run in the clean target to unpatch the source. Therefore, I
> think that quilt (and presumably dpatch) should be added to the
> shortlist of packages that do not trigger this warning.
Lintian has not been able to tell from your package that you're running
quilt in your clean target. Which package is this?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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