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Bug#548218: lintian: another wrong “weak-library-dev-dependency” error?



Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> writes:

> I am building new libkpathsea{-dev,4} packages. Up to now there was
> a dependency only
> 	libkpathsea-dev depends libkpathsea4
> THe lintian warning above triggered a change in my scripts so now I have
> 	libkpathsea-dev depend libkpathsea4 (= version-of-both_packages)
> but I still get the warning. Is there something wrong in my understanding
> of that error message?

What's in the source control file?  That check is done against the source,
not against the binary package, and expects (= ${binary:Version}).

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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