Bug#872611: lintian: Please warn on package using sensible-utils w/o relationship

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.52
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: Clint Adams <clint@debian.org>

Hi!

As part of the long transition to split sensible-utils out from
debianutils, the remaining Depends from debianutils was removed
recently in version 4.8.2.

I asked Clint whether he could send a mail with the current callers
so that they'd be aware of the change and they could fix it, but
thinking about it, it seems more effective and easier to let lintian
check this, as this should be a local and trivial (?) thing to check
for.

Any package that contains references to one of the sensible-utils
binary in non-documentation pathnames/filenames, and does not have any
kind of relationship (Pre-Depends/Depends/Recommends/Suggests) would
get a warning.

This way we do not need to care whether the program is using it
conditionally or not. :)

Thanks,
Guillem