Bug#901507: Bug#901631: Bug#901507: lintian: warn if debhelper is in B-D-Arch or B-D-Indep but not Build-Depends

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Hi Simon,

> [..] like most/all of the dh-$addon family, and maybe some of the
> pkg-$team-tools family.

We would need to curate such a list — the code that was flagging up
"dpatch" and friends was iterating over:

  https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/blob/master/data/common/dh_addons

> [lintian] doesn't seem to detect
> 
> 	%:
> 		dh --whatever --options
> 
> as needing debhelper for clean?

Is that because it doesn't see a dh_* command?

> You're right that the clean-should-be-satisfied-by-build-depends tag is
> more general than what I proposed in this bug, so the new additions
> should maybe emit that tag rather than new tags.

I'm not really that fussed about which tag emits it. :)  More that it
looks like we half do this already and when running the testsuite
against my checks for these new tags, it flagged an existing testcase
aforementioned tag :)

Perhaps getting some concrete positives and false-positives from
yourself would be the best, clearest and most efficient way forward
here?


Regards,

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