Package: linda Version: 0.3.13 Severity: wishlist When run against the OpenAFS kernel module package built from openafs-modules-source, linda reports:
W: openafs-modules-2.4.28; There is no Depends: line in the control file. The package has no Depends: line in the control file. This is not allowed by Policy if the package in question contains binary objects. Perhaps try calling dpkg-shlibdeps or dh_shlibdeps in the package rules file. However, this is intentional. For one, the kernel may not be maintained using a Debian package at all; the module could have been built against a hand-compiled kernel. In my case, the kernel was built with make-kpkg, but the openafs-modules package only declares a Recommends instead of a Depends on the kernel to avoid getting into dependency issues in some cases. I think the best fix would be to not consider kernel modules to be "binary objects" for the purposes of this test (perhaps by noticing that they're in /lib/modules). The intent of the test is clearly to notice binaries that don't declare a proper libc dependency; kernel modules are (nearly) unique in that they don't build against libc. Incidentally, a reference to the section of policy being referred to here would be useful; I'm not actually sure what part of policy this message is intended to point at, unless it's the part about depending on shared libraries that binaries are linked against. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.30 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages linda depends on: ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dash 0.5.2-4 The Debian Almquist Shell ii file 4.12-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii man-db 2.4.2-21 The on-line manual pager ii python 2.3.5-1 An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
