Re: Problems with Lintian refusing to understand "Depends: php5-cli | php4-cli"

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Thomas Goirand wrote:

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> Hi,
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> My package depends on php5-cli | php4-cli, and it was fine, supporting
> backports to Etch and all. Then Lintian developers decided to remove
> php4 from the loop as php4 is removed from Lenny, so it produced an error.

What error?

> 
> I then contacted them, saying that it was more easy for me and everybody
> that the dependency "php5-cli | php4-cli" was supported, so it would be
> more easy to do backports. So they supported it again. But... it went
> backward again, and I'm very surprised to see that the Lintian
> developpers decided to go back to checking only php5-cli.
> 
> I'm a bit stuck with lintian producing an error, and my package can't be
> uploaded. It's a bit silly, as what I wrote as dependency is correct and
> WILL work in Lenny or SID. I don't really wish to change anything before
> Lenny is the new stable, if possible, as the same package works for both
> Lenny and Etch.

Lintian doesn't prevent uploads to sid.


You need to give more context to understand the problem.

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  Felipe Sateler