Package: lintian Version: 1.24.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, The Lintian build-depends-on-obsolete-package and depends-on-obsolete-package checks are useful. But they make it harder to write debian/control to be backport-friendly, that is in such a way that only a rebuild on an Etch system with satisfied build-deps (rather than editing debian/control) is required when backporting. This is because Lintian checks even alternative packages in OR'ed dependencies. For instance, if bar is a known obsolete package, then the following in debian/control: (Build-)Depends: foo | bar will trigger a Lintian error. It would be preferable for the severity in this case to be only a warning instead of an error. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@gmail.com> WWW: http://www.starplot.org/ WWW: http://people.debian.org/~kmccarty/ GPG: public key ID 4F83C751
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