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Package: lintian
Version: 2.117.0
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]>
Hi!
Since shadow 1:4.15.1-1, the login package is no longer Essential:yes,
instead it is now Protected:yes. But lintian still considers it the
former and emits an error tag when a package Depends on login, which
we need to do now to guarantee the package is installed. Such as:
$ lintian inetutils-telnetd_2.5-5_amd64.deb
E: inetutils-telnetd: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version
Depends: login
I guess this would get fixed by refreshing the lintian data from the
archive, and a subsequent upload.
Thanks,
Guillem
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login is no longer present in lintian's essential dataset.
I see inetutils-telnetd still depends on login
https://git.hadrons.org/git/debian/pkgs/inetutils.git/tree/debian/control#n196
But I don't see this lintian error anymore
https://udd.debian.org/lintian/?email1=&email2=&email3=&packages=inetutils-telnetd&ignpackages=&format=html<_error=on<_warning=on<_information=on<_pedantic=on<_experimental=on<_overridden=on&lintian_tag=#all
closing.
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