Bug#254367: lintian: spurious warning when only virtual package specified in Suggests
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 08:33:08PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> 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?
Depends & recommends (the latter because some tools auto-install those.
Ack for dropping suggests from this check.
--Jeroen
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