Bug#486145: lintian: Please downgrade "depends-on-obsolete-package" to warning for alternative OR'ed dependencies
Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:
> Fully agreed. It should even be "I" only. Ideally the obsolete package
> would be associated with the release were they have been obsoleted so that
> the "I" could be upgraded to "W" in release + 1 and "E" in release + 2.
The amusing thing is that Lintian has worked like this for years without
anyone noticing since the obsolete package list was horribly old. The
code that checks this doesn't even know whether it's in an alternative or
not (and never has).
I agree with you that it's not correct the way it is.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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