Bug#544004: depends-on-metapackage: too strict a defintion for metapackage
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant+debianbugs@freegeek.org> writes:
> 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?
Lintian doesn't think that either are metapackages because they are both
arch-dependent and it usually doesn't make any sense for a metapackage to
be arch-dependent. Why *are* they arch-dependent?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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