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Bug#494400: lintian: shlibs-declares-dependency-on-other-package check is buggy



Package: lintian
Version: 1.24.2
Severity: normal

Running lintian on libc6 from experimental I get:

W: libc6: shlibs-declares-dependency-on-other-package libc6 (>= 2.8)
N:
N:   This package declares in its shlibs control file a dependency on some
N:   other package (and not one listed in the Provides of this package).
N:
N:   Packages should normally only list in their shlibs control file the
N:   shared libraries included in that package, and therefore the
N:   dependencies listed there should normally be satisfied by either the
N:   package itself or one of its Provides.
N:
N:   In unusual circumstances where it's necessary to declare more complex
N:   dependencies in the shlibs control file, please add a lintian override
N:   for this warning.
N:
N:   Refer to Policy Manual, section 8.6 for details.
N:

But as said by lintian, shlibs from *libc6* declares a dependency on
*libc6*.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat            1.45-2               produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev            1.14.20              Debian package development tools
ii  file                4.25-1               Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext             0.17-3               GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian     0.35.0+20060710.1    Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2              parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl    1.1600-9             Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl         1.35.dfsg.1-1        Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db              2.5.2-2              on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-12            Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
ii  libtext-template-perl         1.44-1.2   Text::Template perl module
ii  man-db                        2.5.2-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information



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