Re: E2fsprogs overrides: weak-library-dev-dependency
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> In order to make this work, ss-dev and comerr-dev have the following in
> the control file:
> Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, libss2 (= ${mainBinary}), comerr-dev, ${misc:Depe
> nds}
> Depends: libc6-dev | libc-dev, libcomerr2 (= ${mainBinary}), ${misc:Depends}
> But because we use ${mainBinary} and not ${binary:Version}, this causes
> Lintian to complain:
> e2fsprogs source: weak-library-dev-dependency ss-dev on libss2 (= ${mainBinary})
> e2fsprogs source: weak-library-dev-dependency comerr-dev on libcomerr2 (= ${mainBinary})
> I'm going to fix this with an overrides for now. The only way to fix up
> the version numbers would be to bump the Epoch, and I'm not sure it's
> worth it for this case.
Yeah, I don't think it's worth it to add an epoch just for this. An
override seems entirely appropriate to me.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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