Bug#706694: lintian: False positive for missing dpkg-dev dependency
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.5
Severity: important
A package with the following Build-Depends:
Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 9), dpkg-dev (>= 1.6.1), libgd2-noxpm-dev | libgd2-xpm-dev, bison | byacc, flex, libfreetype6-dev
reports that:
E: cvsgraph source: missing-build-dependency dpkg-dev (>= 1.16.1~)
which causes the archive software to reject the package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.8-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-8
ii bzip2 1.0.6-4
ii diffstat 1.55-3
ii file 1:5.11-3
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-10
ii hardening-includes 2.3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.27
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6
ii libc-bin 2.13-38
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.10
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii locales 2.13-38
ii man-db 2.6.3-3
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-21
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.10
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
ii man-db 2.6.3-3
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
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