Re: Proposed MBF: Removal of libfreetype6-dev
Hi Simon,
On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote:
> > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct)
> > dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with
> > bullseye and bookworm.
>
> Lintian diagnoses this as "[build-]depends-on-obsolete-package" since
> 2.116.0 (MR at [1], instances of the relevant tags listed at [2] and
> [3]) which will hopefully help progress towards dropping the transitional
> package.
Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware Lintian had started
flagging dependencies on obsolete packages some 10 months ago.
Having Lintian issue a warning or error instead of bug filing is preferable.
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/417
> (partially reverted in
> https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/452 but the
> freetype part remains)
> [2] https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=build-depends-on-obsolete-package
> [3] https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=depends-on-obsolete-package
>
> Unfortunately lintian.debian.org is not currently updating, so please
> don't use that as a source.
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