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Bug#234531: lintian: Check for (build-)dep on xlibs(-dev)



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:15:40PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.22.11
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> A check should be made for (build-)dependencies on xlibs and xlibs-dev,
> because they are transitional meta packages including all X libraries,
> while they are now properly split up.

Perhaps after sarge? It seems a bit late in the release cycle to be
prodding maintainers about this one.

I'd leave out checks for Depends: xlibs; they're almost always generated
by shlibdeps and there's no point warning about them.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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