Bug#496875: lintian reports "build-depends-on-obsolete-package" as an error
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:46:25PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, August 28, 2008 14:07, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:31:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> [...]
> >> But this package has a deliberate *or'ed* build-dependency to facilitate
> >> backporting:
> >>
> >> libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev
> >>
> >> So this is not an error, and lintian should not report it as such.
> >
> > This was fixed for dependencies in
> > 76bb09a06cd86412505c33036ddd4ad89645ef42.
> > Should probably be adapted for build-dependencies as well.
>
> At the time, I only patched the code that deals with dependencies as it
> was suggested that OR-ed build-depends on obsolete packages were generally
> pointless due to the way sbuild interprets them (see #486145).
Yeah, they do not really help for backports.org backports, but might
for "private" ones. And they also don't really hurt in unstable
precisely due to the sbuild behaviour. So it is probably better to
reduce the severity of the tag like we did for dependencies as well.
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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