Bug#707220: lintian: Please add new tag for obsolete install-info partial upgrade depends

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.12
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

Due to the install-info transition [0], dependencies were added to
packages to be able to support partial upgrades, but those are now
unneeded. I've filed a bug on debhelper (#707218) to stop generating
these, so they will start disappearing gradually once debhelper is
changed and packages get rebuilt with the new version, but there might
be packages not using debhelper that might need manual intervention.
It would be nice to have a check issuing a warning (or maybe a lower
severity tag, to not annoy people initially?) for these dependencies:

  dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info


[0] <http://wiki.debian.org/Transitions/DpkgToGnuInstallInfo>

Thanks,
Guillem