Re: DRAFT: Bits from the Lintian maintainers

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:

>> debhelper and didn't have this dependency will now get a warning.
>> We're currently deciding whether to teach Lintian that ${misc:Depends}
>> isn't needed in this specific case or to just uniformly recommend the
>> ${misc:Depends} dependency for all packages using debhelper.

> The latter is correct. Any debhelper command may need to add new
> misc:Depends at any time.

Thanks!  In that case, I vote we simplify the code and just require
${misc:Depends} if debhelper is in play.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>