Bug#892144: lintian: check for relationships with packages that provide mail-transport-agent but don't use m-t-a

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Paul,

> In that case, you could do a search for such packages in sid at release
> time and embed that list into lintian.

Getcha.

> In other words, lintian should look in the apt cache to find out which
> packages provide the virtual package mail-transport-agent and then
> check if the package has any relationship with those packages but
> doesn't also have a relationship with mail-transport-agent.

I'm a little bit lost by the grammar here. Can you provide a few
examples of good (and bad) dependencies so I'm 100% clear what you
mean?


Regards,

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