Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17
Severity: normal
Hello,
W: libmapnik-dev: lib-recommends-documentation recommends: mapnik-doc
N:
N: The given package appears to be a library package, but it recommends a
N: documentation package. Doing this can pull in unwanted (and often large)
N: documentation packages since recommends are installed by default and
N: library packages are pulled by applications that use them. Users usually
N: only care about the library documentation if they're developing against
N: the library, not just using it, so the development package should
N: recommend the documentation instead. If there is no development package
N: (for modules for scripting languages, for example), consider Suggests
N: instead of Recommends.
N:
N: Severity: normal, Certainty: possible
N:
This is certainty: possible, but it's not following the suggestion itself
gives :)
That is obviously a development package and lintian should check for /-dev$/
in the package name before issuing this warning.
Kindly,
David
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-1-686
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org
500 sid alioth.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.ch.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
==============================================-+-=============
perl | 5.10.1-7
libdigest-md5-perl |
OR perl (>> 5.8) | 5.10.1-7
dpkg-dev (>= 1.13.17) | 1.15.4.1
file | 5.03-2
binutils | 2.20-2
diffstat (>= 1.27-1) | 1.47-1
man-db (>= 2.4.0) | 2.5.6-3
gettext (>= 0.16) | 0.17-8
intltool-debian | 0.35.0+20060710.1
libclass-accessor-perl | 0.34-1
libdigest-sha-perl |
libparse-debianchangelog-perl (>= 0.6) | 1.1.1-2
libtimedate-perl | 1.1900-1
liburi-perl | 1.37+dfsg-1
libipc-run-perl | 0.84-1
libapt-pkg-perl | 0.1.24
Package's Recommends field is empty.
Suggests (Version) | Installed
======================================-+-=============
binutils-multiarch |
libtext-template-perl | 1.45-1
man-db (>= 2.5.1-1) | 2.5.6-3
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