Re: another patch/tag
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:31:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I like the general idea of this tag. But given the fact that only rarely
> > used debhelper commands actually use misc:Depends I would either first
> > check if the program actually uses those and only then issue the tag or
> > would go for info for now and discuss this on debian-devel first before
> > making it a warning.
>
> I'd also get a lot of warnings from this since I usually only list
> misc:Depends for the packages that actually need it, but there's no simple
> way of telling which binary packages would pick up misc:Depends.
>
> Unfortunately, listing it without having anything use it results in a
> warning during the package build, so a lot of people fix the warning by
> removing it (understandably).
Right, I thought of that, too but then forgot to mention it in the mail.
This should probably be changed in dpkg-dev or debhelper before making this a
warning (e.g. by always defining misc:Depends to the empty string if it
is not used).
Gruesse,
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Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
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