Bug#544530: lintian: wrongly reports build-depends-without-arch-dep
Federico Gimenez Nieto <fgimenez@coit.es> writes:
> On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 08:01 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Yeah, it's a known flaw in Lintian's parsing of makefiles. It doesn't
>> build a full dependency graph. Instead, it figures out what to look for
>> by going through linearly. It requires a fair bit of work to fix.
> Ok, thanks Russ, in fact it is not that important at all. I don't know
> what is the right procedure in this situation, should i close the bug
> report?
No, do leave it open, it's a bug. I'll probably lower the severity to
minor, though.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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