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Re: FWD: Bug#44425: debhelper: dh_perl should create proper depends lines



Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Le Sun, Sep 05, 1999 at 10:36:13PM -0700, Joey Hess écrivait:
> > Could someone people look at this and tell me if dh_perl or lintain is at
> > fault here?
> 
> Maybe the maintainer ... :)

I can answer for him, since lintian reports the same bugs against my packages.

> > I use dh_perl for my perl dependencies and then check the package with lintian.
> > It seems the two have differening opinions on what is the right way to do 
> > things.  So either dh_perl needs fixing or lintian.
> > 
> > W: dh-make: perl-script-needs-dependency "perl5|perl5-thread|perl-5.004|perl-5.005|perl-5.005-thread" usr/bin/dh_make use Getopt::Long
> > 
> > dh_make puts this in debian/substvars
> > perl:Depends=perl5
> 
> debian/substvars is ok. Did you put ${perl:Depends} somewhere in your
> control file ?
> 
> Do you see perl5 in the dependencies of your package with dpkg -I ?

Package: debhelper
Depends: perl5 | perl (>= 5.004), fileutils (>= 3.16-4), file (>= 3.23-1)

W: debhelper: perl-script-needs-dependency "perl5|perl5-thread|perl-5.004|perl-5.005|perl-5.005-thread" usr/share/debhelper/Dh_Getopt.pm use Getopt::Long

-- 
see shy jo


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