Bug#818609: lintian: python-script-but-no-python-dep false positive
Neil,
> Lintian needs to stay in step with dpkg - dpkg does not generate a
> ${python3:Depends} substitution if none of the python content of the
> binary package is in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin.
Do you have a citation for that? I had not heard of this magic before.
> It's a git repo, things change... there is history ...
[…]
> > I also remain confused why we are using python3 here
[…]
> We have not made a release based solely on Python3 yet, so we have not
> uploaded to Debian
Sure, I understand things are in flux, but it is not making fixing
this issue for you any easier when quasi-canonical links change
within hours of linking them or even explicit links to .deb packages
do not even match the Python variant. :)
Regards,
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