Re: Hard coded package names in lintian
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in> writes:
>> In particular, if some package enters or leaves a black/whitelist,
>> wouldn't a new lintian version be warranted in the current scheme of
>> things?
>
> Yes. If there are significant packages that become obsolete and warrant a
> lintian warning to aid in a transition, please file a wishlist bug against
> lintian and we'll include that check in the next release.
>
> debcheck is available for the normal case.
The normal case being? I can't think of packages that should depend or
build-depend on obsolete package without getting at least a warning from
lintian?
Cheers
Luk
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