Bug#497344: lintian: please warn about ${shlibs:Depends} when Architecture: all
Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> 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).
Maybe a Severity below wishlist that requires another flag to enable and
which isn't used for lintian.d.o?
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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