Re: Unheeded warnings from build tools
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> I think it'sa bad situation when a build tool emits a warning that is
> routinely ignored; it commonly leads to masking real problems.
>
> The correct solution is for the warning to go away. Either this *is*
> something that needs attention, or it is not. In the former case, what
> is the problem and what is the solution? In the latter case, why is the
> warning there at all?
I think the easiest way to make the warning go away would be for debhelper
to always define misc:Depends, possibly to the empty string (#498666 which
is already tagged pending).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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