Bug#827158: lintian: false positive: depends-on-obsolete-package should no longer refer to debmake

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2016, Paul Wise wrote:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.44
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-CC: Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>, Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org>
> 
> debmake was removed from Debian in 2008 and then the name was hijacked
> in 2013 by a new package with a new codebase that AFAICT does a
> completely different thing to the earlier debmake.
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/453372
> https://bugs.debian.org/462978
> https://tracker.debian.org/news/453375
> 
> Unfortunately lintian still warns about depending on debmake despite it
> being a completely new codebase, please remove it from that list.
> 
> E: check-all-the-things: depends-on-obsolete-package recommends: debmake

Alternatively, the current debmake could/should change its name and
call itself some other way.

In the last years of the old debmake, my job was to ensure that we
could live without it, i.e. to kill it for good. Seeing the name being
used again (even if it's for a different codebase) seems awkward.

Thanks.