Bug#254367: lintian: spurious warning when only virtual package specified in Suggests
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:10:21AM -0400, Kevin McCarty wrote:
> As of the latest release, Lintian gives a warning on my package
> (wmakerconf) that I consider to be spurious:
>
> W: wmakerconf: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends suggests: www-browser
> N:
> N: The package declares a depends on a virtual package without listing a
> N: real package as an alternative first.
> [snipped]
>
> No package management programs that "can't or won't guess which alternative
> to select by default" are smart enough to do anything with Suggests fields
> in the control file. Lintian ought to report this warning only for Depends
> and (maybe) Recommends.
I agree, but before changing this I would like to hear the other
maintainer's opinions. Objections to issue this only for depends and
recommends? Or only for depends?
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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