Bug#637793: lintian: [PATCH] Improve description of versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl
clone 637793 -1
retitle -1 lintian: ensure perl-provides does not incl. perl from exp
tag 637793 pending
thanks
On 2011-08-14 16:46, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.2
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
>
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:40:31AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:02:03AM +0000, pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>
>>> Commit message:
>>>
>>> move perl 5.14 as a second alternative dependency on libextutils-parsexs-perl 2.210000
>>>
>>> Closes: #637033 -- FTBFS: unfullfillable first alternative in build-depends
>>
>> Damyan, thanks for fixing this. I think I was distracted by a related
>> lintian warning, which specifically suggests that perl comes first,
>> forgetting the way the autobuilders interpret this.
>>
>> I'll make a note to look at whether the lintian message should be
>> altered.
>
> Patch attached.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominic.
>
Hi,
I feel a better solution would be to ensure we never emit the tag in
such case. I suspect our data file might pick up the perl in
experimental (as well?) if refreshed on a system with experimental enabled.
Anyhow, for now I have committed this patch and cloned this bug to keep
a tracker for "the above". Thanks for the report and patch. :)
~Niels
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