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

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf.devel@gmail.com> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.1.0
> Severity: normal
>
> Hello.
>
> 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.
> And I can't fix this warnings, because putting
> 'Depends: ${misc:Depends}' will in 99% of my cases result in empty
> 'Depends:' line which is Policy violation. I guess this is archive-wide
> issue, so I am waiting for advice from you (I can just override false
> positives in all my packages, but I am not very happy with this solution.)
>
> Regards,
> Eugene.

Isn't that a dpkg-gencontrol bug for not removing the Depends line
when it evaluate to empty?

MfG
        Goswin