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Bug#999785: built-using-field-on-arch-all-package emitted for non-Go packages



Hello,

On Tue 16 Nov 2021 at 10:19PM +05, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.112.0
> Severity: normal
>
> When lib/Lintian/Check/Debian/Control.pm was split, the Build-Depends: golang-
> go | golang-any check was removed from built-using-field-on-arch-all-package
> and so now it's emitted for all arch:all packages with Built-Using.
>
> If it was done intentionally, which the tag name and description would suggest,
> then I don't think they are correct. The statement in the description makes no
> sense outside of Go context, and the tag name as submitted in
> https://bugs.debian.org/891072 was golang-built-using-on-arch-all but was
> changed by Lamby when applying.

This just confused a sponsee of mine.  The blanket statement that
built-using never makes sense for arch:all is indeed not right.  Could
the tag just be dropped for the time being?

-- 
Sean Whitton

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