Bug#376920: lintian: missing-build-dependency cdbs even though depends on dh-make-php
Charles Fry <cfry@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.22
> Severity: normal
> I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing
> a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which
> depends on cdbs.
It's not clear to me that this is a bug in lintian. I don't see anything
in the documentation of dh-make-php that guarantees that it will always
depend on cdbs in the future, so if your package is directly using cdbs
features, I think you should add an explicit cdbs dependency.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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