Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:
> It looks like at least one package (showeq) depends on
> x-window-system-core (also not for use in Depends),
The description of x-window-system-core explicitly says it's for use in
Depends, actually. It does say that it's for use in Depends for
meta-packages, but right now lintian doesn't really draw that
distinction.
> and it could well happen that someone might take the lazy-but-wrong
> approach and use the other packages for dependencies in the future;
> thus, I think checking for x-window-system{,-core,-dev} and "xorg" in
> the Depends and Build-Depends fields couldn't hurt. (Note that
> Recommends or Suggests on such a package does not cause a problem.)
Yeah, I was thinking about doing at least that much, but I couldn't figure
out a good way around the meta-package depending on another meta-package
thing. Build-Depends is a bit more straightforward.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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