Package: lintian Version: 2.5.36.1 Severity: normal The apache2-module-depends-on-real-apache2-package appears to either be bogus or be pointing to a bug in dh_apache2. I get:
E: libapache2-mod-webauth: apache2-module-depends-on-real-apache2-package apache 2-bin N: N: The package is an Apache2 HTTPD server module but it depends on a real N: Apache2 package. Binary module packages must depend on the virtual N: apache2-api-YYYYMMNN package only in order to ease transitions in N: future. N: N: In particular, module packages must not pull the full web server or any N: of its associated data packages as a dependency. That's left to the N: user. N: N: Severity: serious, Certainty: certain N: N: Check: apache2, Type: binary but I have no explicit dependenc on apache2-bin. Rather, the dependency is added automatically to ${misc:Depends} by dh_apache2 as provided by apache2-dev 2.4.16-3. So this tag is not actionable by a package maintainer, at least without removing ${misc:Depends} from the package dependencies, which seems like a horrible idea. I'm going to add overrides to my package for this. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.1.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.25.1-1 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii diffstat 1.60-1 ii file 1:5.22+15-2 ii gettext 0.19.5.1-1 ii hardening-includes 2.7 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.2 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.29+b3 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.49-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 ii libclone-perl 0.38-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.18.2 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.196-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.07-1 ii libipc-run-perl 0.94-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.413-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-5 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.12-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.69-1 ii man-db 2.7.2-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6 ii t1utils 1.38-4 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii dpkg 1.18.2 ii libautodie-perl 2.29-1 pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none> ii perl 5.20.2-6 ii perl-modules [libautodie-perl] 5.20.2-6 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii dpkg-dev 1.18.2 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2 pn libtext-template-perl <none> pn libyaml-perl <none> -- no debconf information