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Re: lintian warning on usage of needs-recommends



On Tue, Jan 01, 2019 at 05:57:40PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote:
> On 12/31/18 5:55 AM, Utkarsh Gupta wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I was updating the package *ruby-devise*. Although it is being
> > successfully built, it gives me a *lintian* warning. The warning says:
> > *|ruby-devise source: obsolete-runtime-tests-restriction
> > needs-recommends paragraph starting at line 1|*
> > I read about it a little and found out that the usage of
> > *|needs-recommends|* is deprecated.
> > Here's my control file:
> > https://salsa.debian.org/ruby-team/ruby-devise/blob/master/debian/tests/control
> > 
> > However, one of the possible workarounds that was discussed on
> > *||#debain-ruby||* was to shift all the 11 packages listed under
> > *|recommends|* of *|ruby-rails |*|to || *|depends|* of *|rails|* package
> > and strike out the *Restrictions* line.
> > |
> > 
> > Would that suffice? Would like to know the thoughts of you all on the same.
> 
> 
> If no one objects to this change, I'd like to go ahead with moving all
> recommends from ruby-rails to depends of rails. If we are not doing it,
> then each of the autopkgtests will need to duplicate the same.

Please don't, and live with the warning for the time being.

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