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Bug#831633: lintian: please retire restriction-formula-without-versioned-dpkg-dev-dependency



Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.45

In #831362, Helmut Grohne wrote:
W: libcap-ng source: restriction-formula-without-versioned-dpkg-dev-dependency

I still believe that this lintian warning is bogus, because whenever your dpkg-dev is too old, it will be unable to tell you that it is too old failing to parse Build-Depends. In other words, there is no reasonable scenario where the supposedly missing dependency can result in useful diagnostics. It is always satisfied even in jessie anyway. You'd only notice for wheezy-backports-sloppy. From my pov, this is just wasted developer time.

Yes, I think we should remove this tag.

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Jakub Wilk


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