Bug#496875: lintian reports "build-depends-on-obsolete-package" as an error
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:31:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> lintian currently reports the following error for the samba 2:3.2.3-1 source
> package:
>
> E: samba source: build-depends-on-obsolete-package build-depends: libcupsys2-dev
>
> But this package has a deliberate *or'ed* build-dependency to facilitate
> backporting:
>
> libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev
>
> So this is not an error, and lintian should not report it as such.
This was fixed for dependencies in 76bb09a06cd86412505c33036ddd4ad89645ef42.
Should probably be adapted for build-dependencies as well.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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