Bug#261602: lintian: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version on source packages
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.2
Severity: minor
It seems to me that depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version
on source packages is not supported by the letter of the policy. The
explanation refers to policy 3.5, but that only applies to binary
packages. The equivalent section for source packages is 4.2, but that
one does not contain the condition being complained about. (One can
read between the lines that essential packages need not be depended
upon, but there is nothing that prohibits this or says anything about
versioned dependencies on essential packages.)
Possibly, the policy has a shortcoming in that area; if so, please feel
free to forward this bug. You may want to add a reference to section
4.2 in any case.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-586tsc
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-8 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.34-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii file 4.09-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.1-5 GNU Internationalization utilities
pn man-db Not found.
ii perl [libdigest-md5-perl] 5.8.4-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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