[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.1.0-14-g10d6ceb

["Russ Allbery" <rra@debian.org>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 10d6ceb98e5b563855ce2a81dad59ed16e587458
Author: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 4 13:16:26 2008 -0800

    Improve the recommendation for debug package dependencies
    
    * checks/fields.desc:
      + [RA] Improve the recommendation for dependencies in debug packages
        to include the case of a debug package corresponding to multiple
        other packages.

diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc
index 0998e9f..21c35e3 100644
--- a/checks/fields.desc
+++ b/checks/fields.desc
@@ -734,6 +734,17 @@ Info: This package has a name of the form of "X-dbg", indicating it
  depend on the corresponding package, generally with (= ${binary:Version})
  since the debugging symbols are only useful with the binaries created by
  the same build.
+ .
+ If this package provides debugging symbols for multiple other
+ packages, it should normally depend on all of those packages as
+ alternatives.  In other words, <tt>pkga (= ${binary:Version}) | pkgb (=
+ ${binary:Version)</tt> and so forth.  Provided that the non-dbg portion
+ of the package name matches a prefix of the names of the packages on
+ which it depends, Lintian should be able to recognize this dependency as
+ correct.
+ .
+ In some cases, it may be necessary to override this tag because Lintian
+ can't tell the correct dependency is in place.
 
 Tag: conflicts-with-dependency
 Severity: important
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8ebbe2a..7d6d0c1 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ lintian (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
   * checks/changelog{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Warn when the version of a package changes to Debian native.
       Based on a patch by Michal Čihař.  (Closes: #504070)
+  * checks/fields.desc:
+    + [RA] Improve the recommendation for dependencies in debug packages
+      to include the case of a debug package corresponding to multiple
+      other packages.
   * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
     + [ADB] Don't complain about a missing quilt build-dependency if
       the package contains a directory named debian/patches/series.

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