Re: Lintian false positive about virtual package depends?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2013-05-11 20:32, Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

I am fairly sure Lintian emits that tag based on a static data file.  If
you are adding a non-virtual variant that package now for inclusion in
the archive, just file a bug against lintian for those data files to be
updated.

~Niels