Bug#687141: lintian: [checks/scripts] python-script-but-no-python-dep: contradictory description.

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:17:17AM +0200, Jakub Wilk a écrit :
> * Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, 2012-09-10, 17:39:
> >How about either downgrading the importance, severity or certainty
> >of that tag, or change the check so that it also tolerates
> >recommends or suggests on python ?
> 
> AFAICT lintian _does_ tolerate Recommends/Suggests. If it does not,
> please show us a concrete test case.

Thanks for the clarification !

In that case, the description needs a rewording, because for velvet
1.2.03~nozlibcopy-1 we were arguing whether it should depend on or recommend
Python because of the python-script-but-no-python-dep tag, while as I
understand now the problem is that the relationship was unversionned ?  (The
problematic scripts have call /usr/bin/env python2.5).

(I also have been confused by the source code which uses $depends in a way that
made me think that it were not checking for recommends).

How about the following ?

"This package either misses to depend on, recommend or suggest the package
python, or does not specify a correct version."

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan