Bug#944462: lintian: Check for debhelper and the use of misc:Pre-Depends missing
Package: lintian
Version: 2.34.0
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
since v12 debhelper requires the use of misc:Pre-Depends. The manpage [1] says:
[...]
This change makes dh_installinit inject a misc:Pre-
Depends for init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~). Please ensure
that the package lists ${misc:Pre-Depends} in its Pre-
Depends field before upgrading to compat 12.
[...]
It seems to me this requirement is not honored well by recent debian packages.
A new check and tag debhelper-but-no-pre-depends should be introduced
therefore.
Regards,
Sven
[1] https://manpages.debian.org/buster/debhelper/debhelper.7.en.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
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 /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.33.1-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-2
ii coreutils 8.30-3+b1
ii diffstat 1.62-1+b1
ii dpkg 1.19.7
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7
ii file 1:5.37-6
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+b2
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.67-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.62-1+b1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.44-1
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b3
ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b2
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 20180523.0-2
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1
ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b5
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-2
ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
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-2+b1
ii man-db 2.9.0-1
ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.30.0-9
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+b6
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.33.1-2
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b4
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
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