Bug#766375: lintian: false positive with arch-qualified build-depends

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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On 2014-10-22 18:11, Wookey wrote:
> 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).
> 
> 

Yes, Lintian does not support ":$arch" and I would like to see
documentation on the relations between "pkg", "pkg:any" and "pkg:$arch"
dependencies before implementing it.
  In particular, it is not clear to me whether (e.g.) "pkg:$arch"
implies "pkg:any" or/and "pkg" (or/and vice versa).

Nor is it clear to me to what extend the "pkg:$arch" relations are
supported.  I presume dpkg and APT in Jessie know of them (since you are
filing the bug); what about Wheezy?

~Niels