Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: wishlist Hi Lintian maintainers,
since debhelper 7.3.5 dh is able to build extensions and debug packages, so it makes sense to check for a proper dependency on debhelper to make it more obvious that a specific version is needed. This makes backporters' life a bit more easy at the end, I hope. The new check should be implemented in the following way: If the package builds public Python extentions [ `find /usr/lib/pyshared/ -type f -name '*.so' | wc -l` -gt 0 ] _or_ the package build-depends on python.*-dbg (needs to match pythonX.Y-dbg, python-dbg, python-all-dbg) _and_ the package uses dh in debian/rules _and_ setup.py exists in the sourcedirectory (check if dh is called with --sourcedirectory _or_ dh is called with --buildsystem=python_distutils then we need debhelper >= 7.3.5. Thanks and cheers, Bernd -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-think (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.19.51.20090714-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-6 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.23 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libdigest-sha-perl 5.47-1 Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/3 ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.37+dfsg-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.5-3 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org