Bug#365466: lintian: wrong build-depends-without-arch-dep patchutils
Marc Dequènes (Duck) <duck@duckcorp.org> writes:
> I think having cdbs with import of any of the 3 patch system should be a
> sufficient condition to allow patchutils. if you think it is not, please
> reassign this bug to cdbs, so as to request the necessary modifications
> of both the rules and the Build-dependency generation helper.
Oh, I agree that it should allow the dependency. The reason why it's
trickier is that right now that part of lintian doesn't distinguish
between allowed dependencies and required dependencies, so if I just add
this as another case, everyone using any of those patch systems would
*have* to Build-Depend on patchutils to avoid warnings. I don't think
that's right; people may not care about that functionality and CDBS does
fall back on other techniques.
It's not a big deal; I just need to add another case in the code.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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