Bug#398658: lintian: Please detect unconditional use of some nonessential pkgs during purge
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> Perhaps we should mark this as wontfix and leave this to piuparts? I
> admit that Lintian is probably more used than piuparts by developers
> (and it would catch this issue pre-upload). Nevertheless we have not
> done anything about this for 4+ years and alternatives exists.
I think we could do a better job of this than puiparts, since we can check
all the various branches and alternatives, not just the default case.
This is one of those open wishlist bugs that I was considering sort of
"soft-blocked" on the long-term, major project of integrating a real shell
parser into Lintian.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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