On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 12:29:41 +0100 Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote: > > Either way, the documentation changes will probably be reverted when > > the ':any' is dropped from the Python prerequisites. > > I don't think removing the :any from the package names in e.g. > /usr/share/lintian/data/scripts/interpreters is the right solution. > > If I'm reading correctly, I think a better solution would probably be > fixing the interpretation of comparing dependencies with "implies", > so that it recognises that python3 is a "stronger" dependency than > python3:any - that way, the data file could still list python3:any as > the required dependency, and Lintian would recognise that a package with > "Depends: python3" also guarantees that the necessary package to satisfy > "Depends: python3:any" is available. That makes perfect sense! @Felix, can I please ask you to follow this up with the respective maintainer(s) and fix the dependency interpretation? Since lintian seems to have catched this problem, it'd be really nice if you could do so. Nilesh
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