Bug#944462: lintian: Check for debhelper and the use of misc:Pre-Depends missing

To: 944462@bugs.debian.org
Cc: "Sven Geuer" <debmaint@g-e-u-e-r.de>, "Mattia Rizzolo" <mattia@debian.org>
Subject: Bug#944462: lintian: Check for debhelper and the use of misc:Pre-Depends missing
From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:17:03 -0000
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Reply-to: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>, 944462@bugs.debian.org
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tags 944462 + moreinfo
thanks

Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

> May I suggest instead that debhelper itself checks for this, and errors
> out if Pre-Depends is missing?

That would seem more sensible to me; thanks for the idea. Marking this
as moreinfo whilst we get clarification on this…

Regards,

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