Re: Doubt about package-has-a-duplicate-relation
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:25:04PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I have a doubt about the lintian check package-has-a-duplicate-relation.
> Dependencies may be added as a result of automatic variable
> substitutions such as ${misc:Depends} and ${shlibs:Depends}, and they
> may even be platform-dependent, so it's not possible for the maintainer
> to manually sort them out beforehand. I think the check should at
> least be downgraded to a warning so maintainers can feel better about
> overriding it, and the "some tools" that are claimed to break as a
> result of these dependency specifications should simply be fixed.
There's nothing necessarily wrong with ignoring a lintian error on your
packages if the error is due to an automatic tool and a bug has already
been reported against that tool.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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