Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?
On 2013-05-11 20:17 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
> On 11/05/13 20:10, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2013-05-11 19:50 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>
> Yes, I have:
>
> Package: libmpich2-dev
> Architecture: any
> Section: libdevel
> Depends: libmpich-dev (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
> Description: ...
In that case it seems to be a bug in lintian, if only because a
versioned dependency can never be fulfilled by a virtual package.
Just to make sure: there is a libmpich_3.0.4-1_amd64.deb along the
mpich_3.0.4-1_amd64.changes file?
Cheers,
Sven
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