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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