Bug#950113: warn about debhelper-compat in Build-Depends-Indep

To: "Jelmer Vernooij" <jelmer@debian.org>, 950113@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#950113: warn about debhelper-compat in Build-Depends-Indep
From: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:58:03 -0000
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Reply-to: "Chris Lamb" <lamby@debian.org>, 950113@bugs.debian.org
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tags 950113 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi Jelmer,

> It would be great if lintian could warn about debhelper-compat usage in
> Build-Depends-Indep rather than Build-Depends.

Given that debhelper (now?) treats this as a fatal error, ie:

  dh: error: The debhelper-compat build-dependency must be in the
      Build-Depends field (not build-depends-indep)

A warning from Lintian would not be very practical. Would you concur?


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