Bug#743453: lintian: Detect needless suggests/recommends on libservlet[\d\.]+-java

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.21
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hello,
>
> The attached patch detects if a package suggests/recommends
> libservlet[\d\.]+-java.
> They are actually useless because managed by the web container
> and complexify the transition process.

The description is too short and outside java programmer does not
understand. Care to add reference even to wiki page or java policy ?
And how to solve the problem ?

Bastien

> Thanks,
> Sylvestre
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (300, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages lintian depends on:
> ii  binutils                       2.24-4
> ii  bzip2                          1.0.6-5
> ii  diffstat                       1.58-1
> ii  file                           1:5.17-1
> ii  gettext                        0.18.3.2-1
> ii  hardening-includes             2.5
> ii  intltool-debian                0.35.0+20060710.1
> ii  libapt-pkg-perl                0.1.29+b1
> ii  libarchive-zip-perl            1.30-7
> ii  libclass-accessor-perl         0.34-1
> ii  libclone-perl                  0.36-1
> ii  libdpkg-perl                   1.17.6
> ii  libemail-valid-perl            1.192-1
> ii  libfile-basedir-perl           0.03-1
> ii  libipc-run-perl                0.92-1
> ii  liblist-moreutils-perl         0.33-1+b2
> ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl  1.2.0-1
> ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl       0.06~01-2
> ii  libtimedate-perl               2.3000-1
> ii  liburi-perl                    1.60-1
> ii  man-db                         2.6.6-1
> ii  patchutils                     0.3.2-3
> ii  perl [libdigest-sha-perl]      5.18.2-2+b1
> ii  t1utils                        1.37-2
>
> Versions of packages lintian recommends:
> pn  libperlio-gzip-perl             <none>
> ii  perl-modules [libautodie-perl]  5.18.2-2
>
> Versions of packages lintian suggests:
> pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
> ii  dpkg-dev               1.17.6
> ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.71-1+b1
> pn  libtext-template-perl  <none>
> pn  libyaml-perl           <none>
> ii  xz-utils               5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
>
> -- no debconf information