Bug#700953: warn about binary packages depending on debhelper, cdbs etc.

[Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.3
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

I encountered an (example) package that had cdbs not only in its Build-Depends
line, but also in its Depends line. This was a mistake. I would have expected
that Lintian complained about this.

Obviously hardly any package would need to Depend on cdbs, or debhelper,
directly, with the notable exception of dh-* style packages and the occasional
other packaging helper here or there. I would suggest that cdbs or debhelper
being placed in a depends field is most probably an (easy to make) error and
could therefore be warned about, which the few packages that are actually
build helpers themselves could override.


Cheers,
Thijs