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Bug#472705: marked as done (lintian: Add exception for packages build-depending on octave-pkg-dev)

Your message dated Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:58:53 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#472705: lintian: Add exception for packages build-depending on octave-pkg-dev
has caused the Debian Bug report #472705,
regarding lintian: Add exception for packages build-depending on octave-pkg-dev
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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.25
Severity: normal

The octave-pkg-dev package is a helper package to assist developers to build
Octave add-on packages, like those from the Octave-Forge project.

octave-pkg-dev build-depends on cdbs, which eliminates the need for the
Octave add-on package build-depending on cdbs.  Howvere, when the package
needs quilt and "include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk" is added
to debian/rules, Lintian gives the false positive error "source:
missing-build-dependency cdbs"

Would it be possible to include an exception in Lintian for not issuing the
error above when the package build-depends on octave-pkg-dev?

Thanks

Rafael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers gutsy
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.18-1            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.43-2            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.13.24           package building tools for Debian
ii  file                   4.17-4            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.15-2            GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.0-1             parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                 2.4.3-4           The on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-11.1        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Rafael

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* Joerg Jaspert <joerg@ganneff.de> [2008-03-26 09:19]:

> On 11335 March 1977, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 
> > octave-pkg-dev build-depends on cdbs, which eliminates the need for the
> > Octave add-on package build-depending on cdbs.  Howvere, when the package
> > needs quilt and "include /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/patchsys-quilt.mk" is added
> > to debian/rules, Lintian gives the false positive error "source:
> > missing-build-dependency cdbs"
> 
> Packages should *always* b-d on the stuff they really need (except
> build-essential) and NOT trust some random other package to do that for
> them.
> So they are buggy if they dont depend on cdbs already.

Well, packages rely on build-essential for not build-depending on, say, make
and gcc.  At any rate, I get your point: build-essential is not that
"random" as octave-pkg-dev. :-)

> Its  the principe of least surprise: You say what you b-d on, not
> someone else, so someone else changing stuff cant break your package due
> to missing b-d

The octave-pkg-dev is not so unrelated to the octave-* packages, because
they are maintained by the same team.  I am closing this bug report and I
will probably implement a Lintian override in octave-pkg-dev, such that
maintenance of the almost 40 octave-* packages will be easier.

Thanks for your reply, anyway.

-- 
Rafael

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