Bug#440825: lintian: fails to recognize csh fulfilled csh dependencies

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

> Right, you really can't list csh right now and not get a lintian error,
> since as I mentioned, lintian doesn't know it exists.
>
> That dependency line also doesn't really make sense, since both csh and
> tcsh provide c-shell.  The normal convention with virtual packages is to
> list the Debian default for that virtual package first, followed by the
> virtual package.  In this case, since tcsh is the Debian default csh
> package, you should say only:
>
>     Depends: tcsh | c-shell
>
> Since csh provides c-shell, it will still satisfy that dependency.
>   

Okay, thanks for the hint.


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Bernd Zeimetz
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