Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.49
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
While improving the gnuift package (upload pending), I came across this
lintian warning:
W: gnuift source: outdated-autotools-helper-file config.guess 2004-03-12
(...)
N: For packages using debhelper, the tools from the dh-autoreconf package
N: should handle this issue. (...)
Now config.guess is indeed that old, however my packaging depends on
debhelper 10 which depends on autotools-dev and dh-autoreconf package.
So all packages required to deal with the situation are available at
build time, and it seems the above warning is a false alarm.
Can you please review the check? My suggestion is to mute this warning
if there's a build-dependency on debhelper (>= 10~). If however this
still is an issue, the text needs a rewording since I have no idea how
to proceed then.
Christoph
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.27.51.20161201-1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii diffstat 1.61-1
ii file 1:5.29-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.30
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.15
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-11
ii libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-1+b1
ii man-db 2.7.5-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii dpkg 1.18.15
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
ii perl 5.24.1~rc4-1
ii perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl] 5.24.1~rc4-1
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.15
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
-- no debconf information
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