Bug#436058: lintian: non-versioned dependencies on coreutils not considered errors

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.32
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hi,

Non-versioned dependencies on coreutils are not currently considered
errors due to 216536. The transition is over for some time now, and
even on the bug report it's acknowledged that this should be reverted
post sarge.

Attached a patch which fixes this.

regards,
guillem

diff -Naur lintian-1.23.32.orig/checks/fields lintian-1.23.32/checks/fields
--- lintian-1.23.32.orig/checks/fields	2007-04-30 06:03:40.000000000 +0300
+++ lintian-1.23.32/checks/fields	2007-08-05 03:10:47.000000000 +0300
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
 					    if ($known_x_metapackages{$d_pkg} && ! $metapackage && &$is_dep_field($field));
 
 					tag "depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version", "$field: $part_d_orig"
-					    if ($d_pkg ne "coreutils" && $known_essential{$d_pkg} && ! $d_version->[0] && &$is_dep_field($field));
+					    if ($known_essential{$d_pkg} && ! $d_version->[0] && &$is_dep_field($field));
 
 					tag "package-depends-on-an-x-font-package", "$field: $part_d_orig"
 					    if ($field =~ /^(pre-)?depends$/ && $d_pkg =~ /^xfont.*/ && $d_pkg ne 'xfonts-utils' && $d_pkg ne 'xfongs-encodings');