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Source: lintian-brush
Version: 0.130
The Debian Janitor service is opening merge proposals to drop
"obsolete" dependency relations. I'm wondering what the justification
is for this? Does it significantly speed up apt upgrades?
It's useful for packages to match dependencies and their versions in
debian/control with what's provided in the upstream build system
(meson.build, configure.ac, CMakeLists.txt etc.).
It's perhaps more developer work to think about whether the versions
are so old that the Janitor will recommend their removal. So if the
Janitor is potentially requiring more developer mental energy, then
it's worth questioning whether it should be making these merge
proposals by default.
I'm not sure that it's actually "best practice" to be dropping those
package version relationships.
For reference, I guess you can add 'gnome-shell' to your ignore list
for this feature. See
https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/shell-extensions/gnome-shell-extension-hide-activities/-/merge_requests/4
for a brief explanation.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha
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Version: 0.168+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package lintian-brush has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1131275
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
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Thorsten Alteholz (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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