Bug#506697: lintian: invalid "missing-build-dependency libmodule-build-perl"

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.0.0
> Severity: normal
>
> For some strange reason, the latest version of libmodule-build-perl
> doesn't work for zim and thus I added a Build-Conflict to force the
> usage of version of the module that is provided by perl-modules:
>
> Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0), perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.2800)
> Build-Conflicts: libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.3000)
>
> But this combination leads to lintian improperly complaining:
> E: zim source: missing-build-dependency libmodule-build-perl

lintian just doesn't realize that perl-modules now provides
libmodule-build-perl (since it didn't before).

I'm going to remove this check completely, since it no longer usefully
applies to unstable (a straight build dependency on perl is now sufficient
in unstable for Module::Build, although possibly not for your particular
issue) and keeping it just for backports to pre-lenny versions doesn't
seem worth it.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>