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Bug#798762: marked as done (Lintian tag pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support too much debhelper-centric)

Your message dated Tue, 28 Apr 2020 21:38:51 +0000
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and subject line Bug#798762: fixed in lintian 2.69.0
has caused the Debian Bug report #798762,
regarding Lintian tag pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support too much debhelper-centric
to be marked as done.

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Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.36.1

One of the packages I maintain (gettext) has this as an error, no less:

E pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support

The explanation says that I should use "Pre-Depends: ${misc:Pre-Depends}" instead.
Oh, well, but my package does not even use debhelper!

This is like saying that I should use debhelper and tagging it as an *error*.

Well, maybe I should, but if that's the intention, why don't just
create a lintian error saying "package does not use debhelper"?

Last time I checked, use of helper packages was an optional thing, not
mandated by policy. Sure, they are useful and desirable and all that,
but not something that should be mandated by using lintian checks.

A Pre-Depends on multiarch-support should not be an error by itself,
unless we have already decided that a stable release has happened and
we don't need the predepends anymore, in which case the error should
be that we don't need the predepends anymore.

So, this lintian warning should be reserved for packages using
debhelper, which is where the recommendation of using
${misc:Pre-Depends} really makes sense. The current check in its
current state is completely biased.

Thanks.

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Source: lintian
Source-Version: 2.69.0
Done: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lintian, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 798762@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> (supplier of updated lintian package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 19:46:15 +0000
Source: lintian
Architecture: source
Version: 2.69.0
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers <lintian-maint@debian.org>
Changed-By: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Closes: 798762 958794 958845 958932
Changes:
 lintian (2.69.0) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Summary of tag changes:
     + Removed:
       - pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support
 .
   [ Chris Lamb ]
   * Ignore build profiles when checking packages for "py3versions -s"
     without the corresponding Build-Depends. (Closes: #958794)
   * Remove the pre-depends-directly-on-multiarch-support tag; any package
     pre-depending on multiarch-support will not be installable in bullseye.
     (Closes: #798762)
   * Move debhelper itself to compatibility level 13 so it does not emit
     package-uses-old-debhelper-compat-version for itself.
 .
   [ Felix Lechner ]
   * Bump recommended debhelper compat-level to 13; move experimental to 14.
     (Closes: #958932)
   * Fix common prefix detection for extracted tar files. (Closes: #958845)
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