Bug#1027961: lintian: should warn about missing ${ruby:Depends} when dh_ruby is in use
Package: lintian
Version: 2.115.3
Severity: normal
Hi,
dh_ruby (the ruby packaging helper) defines a ruby:Depends substition
variable based on the content of the package's gemspec file.
dpkg-gencontrol issues a warning when it is not used in debian/control:
dpkg-gencontrol: warning: package ruby-specinfra: substitution variable ${ruby:Depends} unused, but is defined
but it would be great if lintian also issued a warning.
Example of affected package: ruby-specinfra/2.83.4-2 (fixed in 2.83.4-3)
Lucas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (100, 'bullseye-fasttrack')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-0.deb11.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.35.2-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii diffstat 1.64-1
ii dpkg 1.20.12
ii dpkg-dev 1.20.12
ii file 1:5.39-3
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii gpg 2.2.27-2+deb11u2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5
ii iso-codes 4.6.0-1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.39
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.68-1
ii libberkeleydb-perl 0.64-1+b1
ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1
ii libclass-xsaccessor-perl 1.19-3+b7
ii libclone-perl 0.45-1+b1
ii libconfig-tiny-perl 2.26-1
ii libconst-fast-perl 0.014-1.1
ii libcpanel-json-xs-perl 4.25-1+b1
ii libdata-dpath-perl 0.58-1
ii libdata-validate-domain-perl 0.10-1.1
ii libdata-validate-uri-perl 0.07-1
ii libdevel-size-perl 0.83-1+b2
pn libdigest-sha-perl <none>
ii libdpkg-perl 1.20.12
ii libemail-address-xs-perl 1.04-1+b3
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1
ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1
ii libfont-ttf-perl 1.06-1.1
ii libhtml-html5-entities-perl 0.004-1.1
ii libhtml-tokeparser-simple-perl 3.16-3
ii libio-interactive-perl 1.023-1
ii libipc-run3-perl 0.048-2
ii libjson-maybexs-perl 1.004003-1
ii liblist-compare-perl 0.55-1
ii liblist-someutils-perl 0.58-1
ii liblist-utilsby-perl 0.11-1
ii libmldbm-perl 2.05-2.1
ii libmoo-perl 2.004004-1
ii libmoox-aliases-perl 0.001006-1.1
ii libnamespace-clean-perl 0.27-1
ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.118-1
ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b7
ii libperlio-utf8-strict-perl 0.008-1+b1
ii libproc-processtable-perl 0.59-2+b1
ii libregexp-wildcards-perl 1.05-2
ii libsereal-decoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsereal-encoder-perl 4.018+ds-1+b1
ii libsort-versions-perl 1.62-1
ii libsyntax-keyword-try-perl 0.21-1
ii libterm-readkey-perl 2.38-1+b2
ii libtext-levenshteinxs-perl 0.03-4+b8
ii libtext-markdown-discount-perl 0.12-1+b1
ii libtext-xslate-perl 3.5.8-1+b1
ii libtime-duration-perl 1.21-1
ii libtime-moment-perl 0.44-1+b3
ii libtimedate-perl 2.3300-2
ii libunicode-utf8-perl 0.62-1+b2
ii liburi-perl 5.08-1
ii libwww-mechanize-perl 2.03-1
ii libwww-perl 6.52-1
ii libxml-libxml-perl 2.0134+dfsg-2+b1
ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.82+repack-1+b1
ii lzip [lzip-decompressor] 1.22-3
ii lzop 1.04-2
ii man-db 2.9.4-2
ii patchutils 0.4.2-1
ii perl [libencode-perl] 5.32.1-4+deb11u2
ii t1utils 1.41-4
ii unzip 6.0-26+deb11u1
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2.1~deb11u1
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii binutils-multiarch 2.35.2-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.59-1
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