Package: lintian Version: 2.20.0 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
one of my packages build-depends on pkg-php-tools, and I used to have that as a versioned dependency, as suggested by this lintian warning: W: tweeper source: pear-package-feature-requires-newer-pkg-php-tools (>= 1.7~) for Composer package support However I found out that running `cme check dpkg` on said package suggests to remove the versioned dependency because it has become unnecessary: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warning in 'control source Build-Depends:1': unnecessary greater-than versioned dependency: pkg-php-tools (>= 1.7~). Debian has oldoldstable -> 1.28; oldstable -> 1.35; stable -> 1.37; unstable -> 1.37; testing -> 1.37; Offending value: 'pkg-php-tools (>= 1.7~)' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So maybe the lintian warning has become outdated? A comment from the Debian PHP maintainer would be useful to sort this out and decide whether to drop the warning from lintian. CCing: Debian PHP PEAR Maintainers <pkg-php-p...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Thanks, Antonio -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.32.51.20190821-2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-2 ii diffstat 1.62-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii file 1:5.37-5 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.17-3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.44-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.74-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.80+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.7-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.1-6 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1 -- no debconf information -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?