Bug#944462: lintian: Check for debhelper and the use of misc:Pre-Depends missing

[Sven Geuer <debmaint@g-e-u-e-r.de>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.34.0
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

since v12 debhelper requires the use of misc:Pre-Depends. The manpage [1] says:

  [...]
  This change makes dh_installinit inject a misc:Pre-
  Depends for init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~). Please ensure
  that the package lists ${misc:Pre-Depends} in its Pre-
  Depends field before upgrading to compat 12.
  [...]

It seems to me this requirement is not honored well by recent debian packages.
A new check and tag debhelper-but-no-pre-depends should be introduced
therefore.

Regards,
Sven

[1] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html



-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                     2.33.1-2
ii  bzip2                        1.0.8-2
ii  coreutils                    8.30-3+b1
ii  diffstat                     1.62-1+b1
ii  dpkg                         1.19.7
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.19.7
ii  file                         1:5.37-6
ii  gettext                      0.19.8.1-9
ii  gpg                          2.2.17-3
ii  intltool-debian              0.35.0+20060710.5
ii  libapt-pkg-perl              0.1.36+b2
ii  libarchive-zip-perl          1.67-1
ii  libberkeleydb-perl           0.62-1+b1
ii  libcapture-tiny-perl         0.48-1
ii  libcgi-pm-perl               4.44-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl       0.51-1
ii  libclass-xsaccessor-perl     1.19-3+b3
ii  libclone-perl                0.41-1+b2
ii  libdpkg-perl                 1.19.7
ii  libemail-valid-perl          1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl         0.08-1
ii  libfile-find-rule-perl       0.34-1
ii  libio-async-loop-epoll-perl  0.20-1
ii  libio-async-perl             0.74-1
ii  libipc-run-perl              20180523.0-2
ii  liblist-compare-perl         0.53-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl       0.416-1+b5
ii  libmldbm-perl                2.05-2
ii  libmoo-perl                  2.003004-2
ii  libnamespace-clean-perl      0.27-1
ii  libpath-tiny-perl            0.108-1
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl     0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl             2.3000-2
ii  libtry-tiny-perl             0.30-1
ii  libtype-tiny-perl            1.004004-1
ii  liburi-perl                  1.76-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl           2.25-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl         0.80+repack-2+b1
ii  man-db                       2.9.0-1
ii  patchutils                   0.3.4-2+b1
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]    5.30.0-9
ii  t1utils                      1.41-3
ii  xz-utils                     5.2.4-1+b1

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1+b6

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.33.1-2
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3+b4
pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>

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