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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: lintian: don't recommend depending on perl-modules
- From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:25:15 +0200
- Message-id: <20100207142515.GA8817@madeleine.local.invalid>
Package: lintian
Version: 2.3.3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
As discussed in #552052, we now consider perl-modules an internal
implementation detail of the perl source package and discourage direct
dependencies on it.
This patch makes lintian no longer recommend a perl-modules dependency
for dual-lived modules.
I'm working on a lintian warning about existing dependencies, but
will submit that as a separate bug.
Thanks for your work on lintian,
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Niko Tyni ntyni@debian.org
>From 9eaf219f0173b3265df33b7c5f1d0787189f2a03 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 23:00:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Don't recommend a direct dependency on perl-modules, use perl instead.
As discussed in #552052, perl-modules is now considered an internal
implementation detail of the perl source package and direct dependencies
on it are discouraged.
---
checks/fields.desc | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc
index 663e66c..d870d1d 100644
--- a/checks/fields.desc
+++ b/checks/fields.desc
@@ -904,10 +904,10 @@ Info: This package declares an unnecessary versioned dependency
.
The recommended way to express the dependency without needless
complications on backporting packages is to use alternative dependencies.
- The Perl core package should be the preferred alternative and the
+ The perl package should be the preferred alternative and the
versioned dependency a secondary one.
.
- Example: perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26)
+ Example: perl (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26)
Ref: policy 7.5
Tag: package-superseded-by-perl
@@ -925,10 +925,10 @@ Info: This package is also provided by one of the Perl core packages
.
The recommended way to express the dependency without needless
complications on backporting packages is to use alternative dependencies.
- The Perl core package should be the preferred alternative and the
+ The perl package should be the preferred alternative and the
versioned dependency a secondary one.
.
- Example: perl-modules (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26)
+ Example: perl (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26)
Ref: policy 7.5
Tag: vcs-field-uses-not-recommended-uri-format
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1.6.6.1
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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.3.4
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
lintian_2.3.4.dsc
to main/l/lintian/lintian_2.3.4.dsc
lintian_2.3.4.tar.gz
to main/l/lintian/lintian_2.3.4.tar.gz
lintian_2.3.4_all.deb
to main/l/lintian/lintian_2.3.4_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 568749@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:23:51 -0700
Source: lintian
Binary: lintian
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.3.4
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Description:
lintian - Debian package checker
Closes: 548094 558360 560414 563495 564713 566820 567451 568680 568748 568749 569129 569220 569492 570380 570408 571280 571616 572260 572297 572298 572430 572456 573081 573398 573399 573815 573837 573839 573914 574048 574515 574744 574771 574826 574970
Changes:
lintian (2.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
.
The "miscellaneous bug fix" release.
.
* Summary of tag changes:
+ Added:
- control-file-with-CRLF-EOLs
- debian-rules-makemaker-prefix-is-deprecated
- empty-binary-package
- incorrect-locale-code
- missing-debian-source-format
- package-type-in-debian-control
- possible-new-upstream-release-without-new-version
- star-file
- unknown-file-in-debian-source
- unknown-source-format
- unknown-locale-code
.
* checks/binaries:
+ [RA] Exclude packages from the klibc source package from the
embedded zlib check since klibc legitimately includes its own copy.
Thanks, maximilian attems. (Closes: #573914)
* checks/changelog-file{,.desc}:
+ [RA] New check for a changelog entry indicating a new upstream
release but no change in the upstream portion of the package
version. Idea from Emilio Pozuelo Monfort. (Closes: #569129)
* checks/control-file:
+ [RG] Update package-depends-on-hardcoded-libc exception to also
exclude eglibc. Based on a patch from Cyril Brulebois.
(Closes: #573398)
+ [RA] Also exclude *-common packages from weak-library-dev-dependency
checks. Thanks, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort. (Closes: #570408)
+ [RA] Suppress missing-separator-between-items if either of the items
contain substvars other than *:Depends substvars, since substvars
may be used to assemble the components of a dependency. Thanks,
Matthias Klose. (Closes: #573815)
+ [RA] Warn about Package-Type instead of XC-Package-Type in
debian/control. Patch from Cyril Brulebois. (Closes: #573399)
* checks/cruft{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Provide more information in native-package-with-dash-version
long description about how native packages can be created by
mistake. Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #573839)
+ [RA] Reword source-contains-prebuilt-windows-binary long
description. (Closes: #574515)
+ [RG] Warn about control and changelog files with CRLF end of line
terminators. Thanks, Michal Čihař. (Closes: #564713)
* checks/debconf:
+ [RA] Don't warn about the length of the short description for
templates of type text in udebs, since they're frequently used by
including them into other templates at runtime. Patch from Frans
Pop. (Closes: #560414)
* checks/debian-source-dir{,.desc}:
+ [RA] New check script from Raphaël Hertzog checking various things
about debian/source/* control files including checking for a source
format control file. (Closes: #566820)
* checks/fields.desc:
+ [RA] Correct the supported source formats in the long description of
unsupported-source-format. Patch from Raphaël Hertzog.
+ [RA] Stop recommending a dependency on perl-modules. Patch from
Niko Tyni. (Closes: #568749)
* checks/files{,.desc}:
+ [RA] New check for binary packages that are empty except for
standard files and don't declare themselves to be metapackages or
other types of dummy packages. Based on a patch from Luca
Falavigna. (Closes: #569220)
+ [RG] New check for packages shipping files literally called '*'
(star symbol). Thanks, Niels Thykier. (Closes: #574771)
+ [RG] New checks for incorrect and unknown locale codes in
/usr/share/locale subdirectories.
* checks/init.d{,.desc}:
+ [RA] Exclude symlinks to upstart-job from init script syntax checks.
Based on a patch by Jos Boumans. (Closes: #569492)
+ [RA] Allow umountnfs to satisfy a $remote_fs requirement and
umountnfs or umountfs to satisfy a $local_fs requirement in LSB
headers, avoiding false positives in unusual situations such as
rsyslog. Thanks, Michael Biebl. (Closes: #571280)
+ [RA] Allow $all to satisfy a $remote_fs or $local_fs requirement in
Required-Start, but (per the wiki) not Required-Stop. Thanks,
Michael Meskes. (Closes: #574970)
* checks/manpages.desc:
+ [RA] Clarify the long description for manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry.
Thanks, Jari Aalto. (Closes: #573837)
* checks/rules:
+ [RA] Allow ant1.7 to satisfy a build requirement for ant. Thanks,
Rene Engelhard. (Closes: #572430)
+ [RG] Require a versioned build-dependency on cdbs if scons.mk or
perl-build.mk are used. (Closes: #574744)
+ [RG] Warn about installing files specifying the destination
directory with PREFIX when Perl's MakeMaker build system is used.
Based on a patch by Niko Tyni. (Closes: #568748)
+ [RA] Also check binary-independent, wildcard, and override rules for
programs requiring build dependencies, but accept them in either
Build-Depends or Build-Depends-Indep.
+ [RA] Check for a quilt dependency when the debhelper 7 quilt module
is used. Thanks, Martin Meredith. (Closes: #548094)
+ [RA] Allow python2.6 packages to satisfy Python build dependencies.
* checks/scripts{,.desc}:
+ [ADB] Update the list of octave interpreters, adding octave3.2
(Closes: #574048) and removing octave2.1 (only available in lenny
and earlier) and octave3.1.
+ [RA] Allow non-executable *.pm files in the examples directory to
start with a line like #!perl. This is probably just an editor
hint. Thanks, Thijs Kinkhorst. (Closes: #574826)
+ [RA] Mention #!@BASH@ and similar cases in the long tag description
of example-interpreter-not-absolute.
+ [RA] Add Python 2.6 to recognized Python versions.
+ [RA] Add liquidsoap and texlua to known interpreters.
* checks/shared-libs:
+ [RA] symbols-declares-dependency-on-other-package should not have
trailing whitespace for unversioned dependencies. Patch from
Modestas Vainius. (Closes: #570380)
* checks/standards-version:
+ [RG] Don't warn about timewarp-standards-version when the
changelog's distribution is "UNRELEASED." Thanks, Raphaël Hertzog.
(Closes: #571616)
.
* collection/debfiles:
+ [RA] Simplify the logic since the entire debian directory is always
copied. Patch from Raphaël Hertzog.
.
* data/debhelper/*:
+ [RG] Refresh against unstable.
* data/fields/{perl-provides,virtual-packages}:
+ [RG] Refresh against unstable.
* data/files/architectures:
+ [RG] Refreshed against dpkg 1.15.6. (Closes: #563495)
* data/files/fonts:
+ [RG] Refresh against unstable.
* data/files/incorrect-locale-codes:
+ [RG] New list of common incorrect locale names
* data/files/locale-codes:
+ [RG] Generated from unstable's iso-codes.
* data/files/triplets:
+ [RG] Refreshed against dpkg 1.15.6.
.
* debian/control:
+ [RG] Update package description to mention Policy version 3.8.4
instead of 3.8.3. Should have been done on the previous release.
* debian/source/format:
+ [RA] Switch package format to 3.0 (native).
* debian/postinst:
+ [RG] Use triggers to ensure an up-to-date locale in all cases.
(Closes: #567451)
.
* frontend/lintian:
+ [RA] Globally ignore SIGPIPE, forcing error return codes from write.
Hopefully will resolve some unreproducible occasional crashes.
(Closes: #558360)
.
* lib/Lintian/Tag/Info.pm:
+ [JP] Don't link to references with no URL. (Closes: #572297)
* lib/Spelling.pm:
+ [ADB] Remove duplicate entries from the correction list. Thanks,
Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #572260)
+ [ADB] Add a spelling correction for "unecessary". Thanks, Jakub
Wilk. (Closes: #572456)
.
* man/lintian-info.1:
+ [CW] Fix typo.
+ [RA] Document new debian-source-dir check script.
.
* private/refresh-locale-codes:
+ [RG] New script to generate a list of locale codes.
.
* reporting/templates/foot.tmpl:
+ [ADB] Replace the "please mail comments to the maintainer" request
with a pointer to reportbug. (Closes: #572298)
.
* testset/etcfiles/:
+ [RA] Fix problems with the md5sums test suite construction in the
legacy etcfiles test. Thanks, Frank Lin PIAT. (Closes: #573081)
.
* t/runtests:
+ [RG] Add support for architecture-specific tests.
+ [RG] Add support for To-Do tests.
* t/tests/binaries-multiarch/:
+ [RG] Fix test failure in non-i386 architectures by normalising the
expected output. Thanks, Niko Tyni. (Closes: #568680)
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