Bug#950113: warn about debhelper-compat in Build-Depends-Indep

["Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Jelmer,

> > Given that debhelper (now?) treats this as a fatal error, ie:
> > 
> >   dh: error: The debhelper-compat build-dependency must be in the
> >       Build-Depends field (not build-depends-indep)
> > 
> > A warning from Lintian would not be very practical. Would you concur?
> > 
> Yes, that totally makes sense. Sorry for the unnecessary bug report -
> especially since this is the second I file for lintian that is
> unactionable.

No apology necessary — indeed, it's a net welfare for Debian if
people were toto tend to over-report rather than under-report.


Regards,

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