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Bug#843117: marked as done (lintian does not warn on Essential dependencies)

Your message dated Mon, 26 Dec 2016 13:37:00 +0000
with message-id <5fcdf47d-eb95-d0b0-ae93-77d63c548528@thykier.net>
and subject line Re: Bug#843117: lintian does not warn on Essential dependencies
has caused the Debian Bug report #843117,
regarding lintian does not warn on Essential dependencies
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.49
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

According to the Debian Policy, packages should not declare dependencies
on packages tagged Essential:

  https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-dependencies

However, I noticed that lintian does not warn if, for instance,
one declares a dependency upon dash.


Best,

  nicoo


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.27-9+b1
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1
ii  file                              1:5.28-4
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                      1.18.10
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~rc3-3
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                            2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-1
ii  perl                              5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  t1utils                           1.39-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.2

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg                                 1.18.10
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl                  <none>
ii  perl                                 5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl]  5.24.1~rc3-3

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch     <none>
ii  dpkg-dev               1.18.10
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-2+b1
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:46:28 +0000 "Adam D. Barratt"
<adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On 2016-11-04 0:17, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
> > According to the Debian Policy, packages should not declare 
> > dependencies
> > on packages tagged Essential:
> > 
> >   
> > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-dependencies
> > 
> > However, I noticed that lintian does not warn if, for instance,
> > one declares a dependency upon dash.
> 
> lintian *does* warn about dependencies on Essential:yes packages, as can 
> be seen from 
> https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version.html
> 
> Checking 
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/tree/data/fields/essential 
> also shows that the list of packages checked for includes dash.
> 
> Is the package that you believe is being incorrectly flagged available 
> somewhere for testing?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
> 

Hi,

We haven't heard from you in a while on this, so I am taking the liberty
of assuming the above reply from Adam solved your enquiry.

Should you still have an issue, by all means please reply back with the
additional information Adam requested and we will gladly revisit the bug
closure.

Thanks,
~Niels

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