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Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning



Raphael Geissert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> [...]
>> Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends'
>> warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives
>> in case of data-only packages, which have no 'Depends' field at all.
> 
> Could you please give an example?
Ok, here is example: I have two binary packages: 'qorganizer' and
'qorganizer-translations'. The latter just have 'Recommends' on 'qorganizer' and no
'Depends' at all. Moreover, '$ grep-aptavail ! -F Depends " " -s Package' can give you
thousands of another examples.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ developer, Debian APT contributor

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