Bug#575073: lintian: override for diff in squeeze
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> The diff package in lenny is now called diffutils in squeeze. To ease
> transition, diff is now dummy and it has a "Pre-Depends: diffutils",
> which lintian flags this way:
> E: diff: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version pre-depends: diffutils
> However, any version of diffutils is ok, as the package name is new, so
> this is really a false positive. Obviously, whenever an essential
> package is renamed, this type of dependency (which should really be a
> Pre-depends) should be ok.
Indeed. I thought we already special-cased that one, but it looks like
we're not at the moment. I'll take a look.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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