Bug#441807: lintian: Please check data package depends
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:41:21PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> It would be nice if lintian would complain about improper or missing
> dependencies for -data packages. That is, if both $package and
> $package-data are defined in debian/control, $package should have
> Depends: $package-data (= ${source:version})
Huh? May it should or maybe not. There is really no way to tell...
> Perhaps there should also be a warning if $package-data does not have
> Recommends: $package
> (with any version, I suppose.)
Why not Suggests? Why any at all?
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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