Re: lintian and new python policy
On 29-Oct-2001 Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
> Has anyone started modifying lintian? If I remember correctly,
> packages that generate lintian errors will be rejected...
>
anyone is me, the maint. (-: Although any pythoners among you willing to get
dirty with perl are welcome to send patches.
> At the moment, lines like
> Depends: python1.5
> cause an error, E: python-script-but-no-python-dep
>
> Also, someone else reported that lintian complains against
> Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2)
>
> Should the policy be changed to recommend:
> Depends: python (>= 2.1)
> Conflicts: python (>= 2.2)
> instead two deps on python? Or is two deps on python not a problem
> with new dpkg, apt etc?
I have been waiting for the policy to finalize. lintian handles official
policy only.
The two depends thing is something I have to revisit. I was trying to keep
people from doing "Depends: libc, libc (>> 2.1)" or more simply "foo, foo".
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