Bug#520640: lintian: Adding ${misc:Depends} causes false positive for dbg-package-missing-depends
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> writes:
> I have this in exim4:
>
> Package: exim4-daemon-light-dbg
> Architecture: any
> Priority: extra
> Depends: exim4-daemon-light, ${misc:Depends}
> Description: debugging symbols for the Exim MTA (v4) packages
> [...]
>
> Which triggers
> "W: exim4 source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends exim4-daemon-light-dbg"
> However if change the dependency to
> "Depends: exim4-daemon-light, ${misc:Depends}" I get a false positive:
> W: exim4 source: dbg-package-missing-depends exim4-daemon-light-dbg
Yeah, that's a bug; thanks. Will be fixed in the next release.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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