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Re: debcheck and Suggests dbgsym packages



On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 11:15:14AM +0000, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 9:56 AM Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> > "Package has a Suggests on pari-gp-dbgsym which cannot be satisfied on amd64"
> >
> > However pari-gp-dbgsym exists in buster-debug
> >
> > So is it a debcheck bug or something that can be fixed in the package ?
> 
> It is a bug in debcheck, it does not yet know about the debian-debug archive.

Well, I'd argue that the message is correct.

The Policy allows Suggests against non-existing packages, so the
situation is alright, but you are in fact suggestion a package that is
outside of the "main" debian archive.
Even if debcheck learnt about the debian-debug archive, I'd still
consider a package from the main archive having Suggests to a package
from the debug archive something weird.

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