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