Bug#366769: lintian: [check/fields] false positive when building against a specific python version
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.21
Severity: normal
One of my packages (mercurial) needs python2.4. So I specifically
build-depends on python2.4-dev.
Since a few days, lintian complains about a missing build dependency:
E: mercurial source: missing-build-dependency python | python-dev | python-all-dev
It seems to ignore my depend on python2.4-dev.
However, my package perfectly builds in a pbuilder environment
(without any depends requested by lintian). So it seems that lintian has
too strict tests with respect to python.
Best regards,
Vincent
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.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 1.13.19 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.5-3 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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