Bug#556094: lib-recommends-documentation should not be triggered on lib.*-dev packages
Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: minor
Hi, I've just been warned about lib-recommends-documentation on two packages
called:
libcore-ocaml-dev
libcore-extended-ocaml-dev
According to the tag description the warning should not be triggered, as the
two packages are in fact development libraries which should recommend the
documentation needed to program against them. Runtime libraries (libcore-ocaml
and libcore-extended-ocaml) on the contrary should of course have no such
recommends.
Looking very briefly at the code of the test, it seems to me that it explicitly
consider a trailing -dev as something that should trigger the warning, while
AFAICT -dev is exactly a suffix that should inhibit the warning to be
triggered.
Many thanks for maintaining lintian!
Cheers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.20-4 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4.1 Debian package development tools
ii file 5.03-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen
ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes
ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii libtimedate-perl 1.1900-1 Time and date functions for Perl
ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available)
ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module
ii man-db 2.5.6-4 on-line manual pager
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