Bug#520640: lintian: Adding ${misc:Depends} causes false positive for dbg-package-missing-depends
On 2009-03-21 Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> 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}
Aargh. thinko. This should obviously have read "Depends:
exim4-daemon-light" *without* ${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.
Thanks.
cu andreas
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