Re: needlessly-depends-on-awk
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> Around February 1998 it was decided that we would make awk essential and
> virtual. For this to happen, it was agreed that base-files (an essential
> package) would have a dependency on awk.
> As of today, base-files is currently the only package in the archive
> which, according to lintian, "needlessly-depends-on-awk", but, as
> explained, this is ok for base-files.
> What would be the right procedure to avoid lintian warn on such thing?
Just ask. :) Fixed for the next release. While I was at it, I also
added the appropriate exceptions or special permission expectations for
/tmp, /var/tmp, /usr/src, /var/local, and /var/lock. That should take
care of all of the Lintian warnings or errors for base-files.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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