Bug#798762: Lintian tag pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support too much debhelper-centric
- To: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
- Cc: 798762@bugs.debian.org, Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>
- Subject: Bug#798762: Lintian tag pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support too much debhelper-centric
- From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:03:59 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87wo62580g.fsf@turtle.gmx.de>
- Reply-to: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>, 798762@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <1516686309.2548084.1244773304.60061EFF@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Chris Lamb's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:15:09 +0530")
- References: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1509121336070.32616@cantor.unex.es> <1516686309.2548084.1244773304.60061EFF@webmail.messagingengine.com> <alpine.DEB.2.11.1509121336070.32616@cantor.unex.es>
On 2018-01-23 11:15 +0530, Chris Lamb wrote:
> tags 798762 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
>> Lintian tag pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support too much
>> debhelper-centric
>
> It seems like this was not applied. That sucks. However, do we still
> need this now that the issue (and the stable release in question) was
> quite some time ago?
Perhaps the tag could be dropped entirely now? Thankfully the
multiarch-support package is gone for good, and any package
pre-depending on it will simply not be installable in unstable and
testing, so the chance of anyone reintroducing such a predependency
should be rather low.
Cheers,
Sven
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