Bug#364330: lintian: Please account for python-dev's dependency on python
Aaron M Ucko <ucko@debian.org> writes:
> 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?
Actually, they're buggy more than they're strict; I'm going to upload
again later today to fix that. However, just to check, are you using
dh_python? If so, that's where the check is coming from. dh_python
actually does require python itself. However, I see that python-dev
depends on python, so you get it through a transitive dependency. I'm not
sure how safe it is to rely on that always being the case going forward,
but maybe it should be....
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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