Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?
On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> I'm working on a new version of the mpich2 packages. It is being
> renamed to mpich, so I have introduced some transitional packages.
>
> For example, the current package called libmpich2-dev will be replaced
> with the new package libmpich-dev. Therefore, libmpich2-dev will
> become a transitional package that depends on libmpich-dev. This is
> what I have specified in the control file for the new mpich.
>
> I am not referring to any virtual packages in the control file, as far
> as I can see myself. However, lintian gives me this:
>
> tmac@asus:$ lintian mpich_3.0.4-1_amd64.changes
> .
> .
> W: libmpich2-dev: virtual-package-depends-without-real-package-depends
> depends: libmpich-dev
> .
> .
>
> Does anyone know why lintian would think that libmpich-dev, which is a
> new package that will appear with the newer mpich-packages, is a
> virtual package?
You should probably version the dependency, did you do that?
Cheers,
Sven
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