Bug#513423: lintian: false positive: libmx4j-java source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command
Hi,
Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
[...]
> I'm getting :
> [...]
> libmx4j-java source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh_-command
> dh_nativejava=java-gcj-compat-dev
> [...]
>
> but libmx4j-java Build-Depends on default-jdk-builddep
> which in turn Depends on default-jdk
> which Depends on java-gcj-compat-dev.
>
> I don't want to add explicit B-D on java-gcj-compat-dev package.
That's exactly what you should do; if default-jdk stops depending on
java-cgj-compat-dev, or default-jdk-builddep stops depending on default-jdk,
your package will fail to build. You should not rely on whether a build
dependency pulls another package if you use something from that other package.
If it was used only by some component of, for example, default-jdk then neither
lintian would know you use it nor you should depend on it.
> Should I override this lintian "E" tag ?
> Maybe lintian should check full dependency chain (seems to time consuming for
> me) ?
No and no; the latter can't be done because lintian works on each package in
isolation, it only knows about the package it is currently working on.
As I'm not a maintainer I'm leaving the report open, although IMO there's
nothing to change here (and the tag description sounds fine).
Cheers,
--
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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