On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 11:40:41AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> As discussed, stepic is another case of this that I just ran into. The test
> was a useful reminder that it hadn't been ported to python3 in 0.3-5, but once
> I did the port in 0.3-6 it was still there due to the way the package renaming
> test was done.
>
> Maybe if you look for python:Depends, but no python3:Depends that would reduce
> the false positives without being excessively magical.
Personally, to catch this (rather special, I dare say) case, I'd ignore
transitional packages (I don't know if lintian already has a definition
of those, but I'd define them as "priority extra/optional, section
oldlibs, any('dummy transitional', 'transitional package') in the long
description").
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