Re: Bits from the Lintian maintainers

[Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <alexander@schmehl.info>]

Hi!

Am 16.08.2011 11:04, schrieb Thorsten Glaser:

>>> (Checking backported packages with the positively ancient
>>> lintian in lenny is a PITA.)
>>  So why not use lintian from lenny-backports or squeeze-backports then?
> Their set of checks does not match the “base distribution”,
> for example, although I don’t remember whether that was for
> etch or lenny, the newer lintian wants to add a dependency
> on dpkg >= something | install-info, which isn’t appropriate
> (satisfiable without backporting either of them) for the old
> “base distribution”.

Hu?

The lintian package in squeeze has indeed an dependency on  dpkg-dev (>=
1.13.17).  With the squeeze backports however, that became an
unversioned suggest.  I can't see a depdency on dpkg itself, not on
install-info.


Best regards,
  Alexander