Bug#733597: detect dev packages that don't depend on other dev packages

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

Control: retitle -1 [external] detect dev packages that don't depend on other dev packages
Control: tags -1 + wontfix

Thanks for the bug report.

* Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>, 2013-12-30, 09:27:
> It would be useful for lintian to scan the headers in a dev package and 
> see if they try to include any other headers that are not provided 
> (transitively) by Depends

I'm afraid we can't do that without violating Lintian design 
constraints:

“* deterministic replay-ability: Checks should not rely on the state of 
system caches or even the system time. These things makes it harder 
for others to reproduce (the absence of) tags.

* same source analysis: Lintian checks packages in small isolated groups 
based on the source package. Requiring the presence of all the 
dependencies to provide the full results make it harder to run lintian 
(not to mention, it makes "deterministic replay-ability" a lot harder 
as well).”

(Lintian User's Manual §1.3)

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Jakub Wilk