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

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

control: owner -1 rouca@debian.org


Will add a cruft check

Bastien lintian and sensible-util maint

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> 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
>