Bug#939874: lintian: missing-build-dependency tag false positives
Package: lintian
Version: 2.21.0
Severity: normal
There are currently three packages in the archive which trigger the
missing-build-dependency error. All three of these build-depend on
dh-autoreconf, but not on debhelper, and they also trigger the
package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends error[2].
All three cases are false positives, as the packages do not use any
debhelper commands besides dh-autoreconf. To prove that, I have
- built debhelper from git, which splits a libdebhelper-perl package
off from it (see #821130);
- created a local dh-autoreconf package which depends on
libdebhelper-perl rather than on debhelper;
- installed libdebhelper-perl and dh-autoreconf, but not debhelper
in a build chroot.
All three packages built fine, which shows that they do not need to
build-depend on debhelper.
1. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-build-dependency.html
2. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-rc8-nouveau (SMP w/2 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 2.32.51.20190821-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-2
ii diffstat 1.62-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii file 1:5.37-5
ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9
ii gpg 2.2.17-3
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.44-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1
ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b1
ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7
ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1
ii libio-async-perl 0.74-1
ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4
ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1
ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2
ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1
ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1
ii liburi-perl 1.76-1
ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.80+repack-1
ii man-db 2.8.7-3
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.1-6
ii t1utils 1.41-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3
ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1
-- no debconf information
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