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Bug#347169: X metapackage dependency check now obsolete?



Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> writes:

> Given that for 99.9% of packages it would constitute a bug to Depends:
> x-window-system-core, you could add it and just let metapackages add
> lintian overrides.  That would catch the showeq case.  On the other
> hand, that seems highly suboptimal.  In the absence of a better way to
> check metapackages differently, this should probably remain unchecked.

I'd like to get to the point where lintian can detect metapackages, since
they have different rules in a few respects.  I kind of wish there were
some more formal way of tagging them.  That would be useful for front-ends
like aptitude as well, since the rules about when they should be installed
and removed are a little different.

> Well, at a minimum, Depends or Build-Depends on x-window-system,
> x-window-system-dev, or xorg will always constitute a bug.  Adding those
> would help somewhat.

xorg has the same provision for use with metapackages.  The build-depends
part, though, seems uncontroversial, so I'm applying that.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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