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- Subject: lintian -- warning for (Build-)?Depending on a package in section oldlibs
- From: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:15:07 +0530
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20071215174507.GA18293@debian.akumar.iitm.ac.in>
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.41 Severity: wishlist Dear lintian maintainers, I would request you to please incorporate a lintian warning, two actually. 1. For packages which Build-Depend on a package in section `oldlibs' 2. For packages which Depend on a package in section `oldlibs'. In my opinion, we should be gradually phasing out dependencies on packages in oldlibs, and this would be the first logical step to remind maintainers about the issue. I could get the list of packages using this command: awk 'BEGIN { RS = ""} /Section:.*oldlibs/ { print $2}' /var/lib/dpkg/status Thanks! Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036Attachment: signature.asc
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- To: Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in>
- Cc: 456432-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#456432: lintian -- warning for (Build-)?Depending on a package in section oldlibs
- From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:11:20 -0800
- Message-id: <878x3vk9av.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20071215174507.GA18293@debian.akumar.iitm.ac.in> (Kumar Appaiah's message of "Sat\, 15 Dec 2007 23\:15\:07 +0530")
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Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.41 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear lintian maintainers, > > I would request you to please incorporate a lintian warning, two > actually. > > 1. For packages which Build-Depend on a package in section `oldlibs' > > 2. For packages which Depend on a package in section `oldlibs'. I'm afraid there isn't any way for lintian to do this since lintian doesn't have access to information outside of the package being checked. lintian intentionally restricts its focus to checks internal to the package and leaves cross-package checks to other tools. debcheck already performs the check that you're requesting, at least for Depends, and the results are available on the Debian QA pages. If there are specific high-profile obsolete packages, we can mark them in lintian as obsolete and issue warnings in specific situations, but the general case would require access to a package list and means that lintian results would change with the package list even if nothing about lintian or the package changed, which violates a design goal for lintian. -- Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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