Bug#497344: lintian: please warn about ${shlibs:Depends} when Architecture: all

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:
> 
> But more seriously, I think it might be more trouble than it's worth.
> It's very convenient for Lintian's test suite to have a control template
> that always has ${shlibs:Depends} and it's harmless in Arch: all packages.
> I suppose it's one way to detect packages that were supposed to be Arch:
> any, but we already have a bunch of other ways to do that (anything that
> actually fills in that variable, for example, will trigger warnings about
> binaries in Arch: all packages).
> 

You are right, maybe this should be added to --pedantic (still thinking on how
to implement it).

Cheers,
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Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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