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Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Now that we have the data about packages provided by the perl core,
here's a check for unnecessary separate packages.
The paragraph about alternative dependencies in the description is
a bit redundant, but I thought I'd err on the verbose side.
This currently triggers on at least libmodule-build-perl (#480727)
and libparams-check-perl (#498459).
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
>From f754142556f1135a026c7aee95f50dfedf47dee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:51:56 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Check for packages also provided by the perl core with at least the same version.
---
checks/fields | 6 ++++++
checks/fields.desc | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/checks/fields b/checks/fields
index 07895be..13161ff 100644
--- a/checks/fields
+++ b/checks/fields
@@ -187,6 +187,12 @@ if (not defined $info->field('version')) {
if ($version =~ /\+b\d+$/ && $type eq "source") {
tag "binary-nmu-debian-revision-in-source", "$version";
}
+ my $name = $info->field('package');
+ if ($name && $perl_core_provides->known($name) &&
+ perl_core_has_version($name, '>=', $upstream)) {
+ my $core_version = $perl_core_provides->value($name);
+ tag "package-superseded-by-perl", "with $core_version"
+ }
} else {
tag "bad-version-number", "$version";
}
diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc
index 54b18e5..f62c5a1 100644
--- a/checks/fields.desc
+++ b/checks/fields.desc
@@ -1014,3 +1014,24 @@ Info: This package declares an unnecessary versioned dependency
Example: perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26)
Ref: policy 7.5
+Tag: package-superseded-by-perl
+Type: warning
+Severity: normal
+Certainty: certain
+Info: This package is also provided by one of the Perl core packages
+ (perl, perl-base, perl-modules), and the core version is at least
+ as new as this one.
+ .
+ The package should either be upgraded to a newer upstream version
+ or removed from the archive as unnecessary. In the removal case, any
+ versioned dependencies on this package must first be changed to include
+ the Perl core package (because versioned dependencies are not satisfied
+ by provided packages).
+ .
+ The recommended way to express the dependency without needless
+ complications on backporting packages is to use alternative dependencies.
+ The Perl core package should be the preferred alternative and the
+ versioned dependency a secondary one.
+ .
+ Example: perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26)
+Ref: policy 7.5
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1.5.6.5
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.0.0~rc2
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_2.0.0~rc2.dsc
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.0.0~rc2.dsc
lintian_2.0.0~rc2.tar.gz
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.0.0~rc2.tar.gz
lintian_2.0.0~rc2_all.deb
to pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.0.0~rc2_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 498897@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:56:51 +0200
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.0.0~rc2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 495431 497247 498096 498897 498994
Changes:
lintian (2.0.0~rc2) experimental; urgency=low
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- package-superseded-by-perl
.
* checks/copyright-file:
+ [FL] Also detect v1.1 of CeCILL license, not only v2.0.
(Closes: #498994)
* checks/debhelper:
+ [FL] Use new Lintian::Collect::Source->binaries method.
* checks/fields{,.desc}:
+ [FL] Warn about Perl module packages superseded by Perl
core. Patch by Niko Tyni. (Closes: #498897)
* checks/rules:
+ [FL] Do not issue desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call if the
package uses dh. (Closes: #497247)
* checks/scripts:
+ [FL] Accept the ocaml virtual packages as providing ocamlrun.
Based on a patch by Stephane Glondu. (Closes: #495431)
* checks/standards-version:
+ [FL] Use new Lintian::Collect::Source->binaries method to
fix udeb detection. Thanks to Raphael Geissert.
(Closes: #498096)
.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [FL] Add support for ranges to --display-level.
.
* lib/Lintian/Collect/Source.pm:
+ [FL] New binaries method that returns a hash with binary package
names and types.
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