Bug#766375: lintian: false positive with arch-qualified build-depends
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.28
Severity: normal
It seems that Lintian does not understand arch-qualified dependencies,
or build-dependencies.
If a package has an arch-qualified build-dependency on a
build-essential package, such as on libc:armhf, then lintian complains
about depends-on-build-essential-package-without-using-version
But when the dependency is on a package from a foreign arch this is
not wrong. This applies to both build-deps and deps.
An example package which triggers this is cross-gcc-4.9-armel (currently in NEW).
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