Bug#364330: lintian: Please account for python-dev's dependency on python

["Aaron M. Ucko" <ucko@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.17
Severity: normal

Lintian's latest Python build-dependency checks are a bit too strict
IMO -- in particular, they insist on direct build-dependencies on
python, whereas I would argue that build-dependencies on python-dev
should be sufficient.

Could you please loosen the checks accordingly?

Thanks!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'unstable'), (300, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.9
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils             2.16.1cvs20060413-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat             1.41-1              produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev             1.13.18             package building tools for Debian
ii  file                 4.17-1              Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext              0.14.5-2            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian      0.34.2+20060415     Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchang 1.0-1               parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db               2.4.3-3             The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-4             Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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