Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage

[Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.14
Severity: wishlist

thanks for maintaining lintian.

for at least two packages i've worked on, it seems that they get
"depends-on-metapackage" lintian errors:

  http://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-metapackage.html

"Packages that are not themselves metapackages must not depend on metapackages,
since this may prevent the user from removing portions of the package set they
don't need."

both education-desktop-other and ltsp-client are metapackages, or nearly so,
containing only standard /usr/share/doc files, lintian overrides (for the
predecessor to depends-on-metapackage, depends-on-x-metapackage), and i guess
education-desktop-other also contains a cdd task file. but that still confuses
me why ltsp-client is treated as a metapackage.

how does lintian determine if a package is a "true" metapackage?

live well,
  vagrant