lintian: r841 - in trunk: checks debian

[rra@debian.org]

Author: rra
Date: 2007-04-11 04:30:00 +0200 (Wed, 11 Apr 2007)
New Revision: 841

Modified:
   trunk/checks/cruft
   trunk/checks/cruft.desc
   trunk/debian/changelog
Log:
  + [RA] Allow a build dependency on automake to satisfy the
    autotools-dev requirement since users may use autoreconf to update
    config.{sub,guess}.  Thanks, Jord?\195?\160 Polo.  (Closes: #417067)

Modified: trunk/checks/cruft
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/cruft	2007-04-11 02:25:06 UTC (rev 840)
+++ trunk/checks/cruft	2007-04-11 02:30:00 UTC (rev 841)
@@ -53,13 +53,19 @@
     }
 }
 
-# read build-depends file and see if it depends on autotools-dev
+# Read build-depends file and see if it depends on autotools-dev or automake.
+# I'm not thrilled with having the automake exception as well, but people do
+# depend on autoconf and automake and then use autoreconf to update
+# config.guess and config.sub, and automake depends on autotools-dev.
+#
+# We may need to allow all the various versioned automake packages, but let's
+# hope not.
 $atdinbd = 0;
 if (open IN, "fields/build-depends") {
     my $bd;
     chop($bd = <IN>);
     close IN;
-    $atdinbd = 1 if Dep::implies(Dep::parse($bd), Dep::parse('autotools-dev'));
+    $atdinbd = 1 if Dep::implies(Dep::parse($bd), Dep::parse('autotools-dev | automake'));
 }
 
 my $cwd = cwd;

Modified: trunk/checks/cruft.desc
===================================================================
--- trunk/checks/cruft.desc	2007-04-11 02:25:06 UTC (rev 840)
+++ trunk/checks/cruft.desc	2007-04-11 02:30:00 UTC (rev 841)
@@ -40,9 +40,9 @@
 Tag: outdated-autotools-helper-file
 Type: error
 Info: The referenced file has a time stamp older than year 2004 and the
- package does not build-depend on autotools-dev and therefore apparently
- does not update it. This usually means that the source package will not
- work correctly on all currently released architectures.
+ package does not build-depend on autotools-dev or automake and therefore
+ apparently does not update it. This usually means that the source package
+ will not work correctly on all currently released architectures.
 
 Tag: svn-commit-file-in-source
 Type: warning

Modified: trunk/debian/changelog
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/changelog	2007-04-11 02:25:06 UTC (rev 840)
+++ trunk/debian/changelog	2007-04-11 02:30:00 UTC (rev 841)
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@
       tarball should generally be reported as an upstream bug.  Qualify
       the statement that export should be used instead of checkout to
       refer to snapshot packaging.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #373668)
+    + [RA] Allow a build dependency on automake to satisfy the
+      autotools-dev requirement since users may use autoreconf to update
+      config.{sub,guess}.  Thanks, Jordà Polo.  (Closes: #417067)
   * checks/debhelper.desc:
     + [RA] Use consistent file naming when diagnosing possibly conflicting
       debhelper compat settings.  Thanks, Jari Aalto.  (Closes: #409122)