Bug#711988: limit source to lintian, tagging 711988

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-09-21 17:03, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> Hi Niels,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:35:36AM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
>> Subject: limit source to lintian, tagging 711988
>>
>> #lintian (2.5.18) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
>> #
>> #  * data/scripts/interpreters:
>> #    + [NT] Use "python:any | python-minimal:any" as dependency
>> #      for python scripts.  This fixes a false-positive for
>> #      python-script-but-no-python-dep when dh_python2 generates
>> #      a dependency of "python:any".  Thanks to Francois Gouget
>> #      for the report.  (Closes: #711988)
>> #
>>
>> limit source lintian
>> tags 711988 + pending
>> thanks
> 
> I just tested the version of lintian currently in git, and I still get
> python-script-but-no-python-dep, because lintian doesn't think python2.7:any
> (added by dh_python2) is a sufficient dependency.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ivo
> 
> 

Hi,

Thanks for testing it.  Is the package available in the archive to test
against?

It is honestly not too surprising that Lintian does not like python 2.7;
its list of versioned interpreters stops at 2.6. Maybe we should fix
that too.

~Niels