Bug#870829: Contradicting warnings/errors: useless-autoreconf-build-depends vs. missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.52
Severity: normal
When packaging mdocml 1.14.3, lintian noted that the autotools-dev
build-dependency was unnecessary with debhelper ≥ 10 and should be removed:
W: mdocml source: useless-autoreconf-build-depends autotools-dev
After doing that, lintian noted that the autotools_dev addon was missing a
dependency on autotools-dev:
E: mdocml source: missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon autotools_dev => autotools-dev
This error seems to directly contradict the earlier warning.
Not only src:mdocml is affected: e.g. src:teg removed the build dependency in
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-games/packages/trunk/teg/debian/control?r1=15952&r2=15990
and now shows up in
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon.html.
What course of action is correct? Which warning should be removed from lintian?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64
Kernel: Linux 4.11.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.28-6
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii file 1:5.30-1
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-2+b1
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.32+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.59-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.38-2+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.24
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+b3
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12
ii libperl5.22 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.22.2-5
ii libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.0-4
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii liburi-perl 1.71-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.22-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.63-2+b2
ii man-db 2.7.6.1-2
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2
ii perl 5.26.0-4
ii t1utils 1.39-2
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.24
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
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