Bug#656882: lintian: false-positive package-relation-with-self
Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> writes:
> By the looks of it [1], Lintian does not handle self relations too
> well with Replaces + Provides.
> The observation done so far is that xabacus (Provides, Conflicts and
> Replaces itself) is correctly done (in terms of §7.6.2).
> The apache2-suexec package does not provide itself (but it has
> Conflicts and Replaces on itself). The question is whether or not it
> needs the provide itself explicitly.
I don't think it should, although the dpkg maintainers would know for
sure. But I suspect Lintian should say that's fine in the case where the
virtual package name is the same as the real package name, as it is in
this case.
> Also not sure what is up with nvidia-kernel-dkms. By the looks of it,
> it is using §7.6.2, but missing a replaces. Russ, is that correctly
> asserted of me?
Yes, that looks correct. I think that set of packages should all have
Replaces as well.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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