Bug#456802: lintian: "strong implies weak" dependency check broken
Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.37
Severity: normal
Hi,
the check added to checks/control-file to diagnose stronger dependencies
that imply weaker dependencies in 1.23.37 fails when substvars are
involved; for example when running lintian on the xorg source package
currently in sid (1:7.3+8), I get this warning:
W: xorg source: stronger-dependency-implies-weaker depends -> recommends ${F:XServer-Xorg-Detect-Depends}
It looks like Dep::parse (or, really, Dep::Pred) doesn't handle
substvars.
Cheers,
Julien
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20071027-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.12 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-2 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.0-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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