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--- Begin Message ---Package: debhelper Version: 4.1.80 Severity: normal You might feel that this is a lintian bug, or even a dpkg-gencontrol bug. Anyway, here's the scenario: Package: xserver-common Depends: debconf (>= 1.0.21), xfree86-common (>= 4.2.1-5), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Why the hard-coded dep on debconf? * debian/control: tighten xserver-common's versioned dependency on debconf again, to 1.0.21, for the reasons mentioned in that version's changelog entry * Conflict with whiptail << 0.50.17-7, as some version between that one and the 0.50-7 in stable changes something that is required to make the fix I put in for values starting with dashes work. Closes: #122182 (I use debconf to handle nice values, which can start with a leading dash.) Anyway, so I end up with this: % dpkg-deb --info xserver-common_4.3.0-0pre1v5_powerpc.deb [...] Depends: debconf (>= 1.0.21), xfree86-common (>= 4.2.1-5), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), debconf (>= 0.5) ...so lintian complains: E: xserver-common: package-has-a-duplicate-relation debconf (>= 1.0.21), debconf (>= 0.5) N: N: The package seems to declare a relation on another package which is N: already implied by other relations it declares, and is therefore N: redundant. This is not only sloppy but can break some tools. I can envision several possible solutions to this problem: 1) dh_gencontrol eliminates redundant package relationships after dpkg-gencontrol generates a package's control data (in this case, the stricter "debconf (>= 1.0.21)" dependency should be preserved. 2) dh_gencontrol could accept an argument to exclude expansion of ${misc:Depends} to certain package names. 3) dpkg-gencontrol can collapse redundant relationship declarations itself. 4) Lintian can be less pejorative about this problem ("sloppy"), since it may not be the package maintainer's fault. 5) "Some tools" can be fixed to not break when they encounter redundant relationships. I guess you'd have to ask Josip what those are, as I don't know of any. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux redwald 2.4.22-powerpc #1 Sat Oct 25 16:59:03 EST 2003 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.14.90.0.7-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.0.91-2 The GNU core utilities ii debconf-utils 1.3.21 debconf utilities ii dpkg-dev 1.10.18 Package building tools for Debian ii file 4.06-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii fileutils 5.0.91-2 The GNU file management utilities ii html2text 1.3.1-2 An advanced HTML to text converter ii perl 5.8.2-2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii po-debconf 0.8.7 Manage translated Debconf template -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Source: dpkg Source-Version: 1.14.8 We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of dpkg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive: dpkg-dev_1.14.8_all.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg-dev_1.14.8_all.deb dpkg_1.14.8.dsc to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.8.dsc dpkg_1.14.8.tar.gz to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.8.tar.gz dpkg_1.14.8_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.14.8_i386.deb dselect_1.14.8_i386.deb to pool/main/d/dpkg/dselect_1.14.8_i386.deb A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (supplier of updated dpkg package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:36:30 +0200 Source: dpkg Binary: dpkg dselect dpkg-dev Architecture: source i386 all Version: 1.14.8 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Dpkg Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Changed-By: Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Description: dpkg - package maintenance system for Debian dpkg-dev - package building tools for Debian dselect - user tool to manage Debian packages Closes: 10807 41907 48208 80340 109954 178203 186809 222652 382673 383916 395942 430367 431597 445852 445858 446119 446278 446501 446624 447476 448353 448354 Changes: dpkg (1.14.8) unstable; urgency=low . [ Raphael Hertzog ] * Heavy rework of dpkg-shlibdeps: - Support "symbols" files to generate finer-grained dependencies. Those files can be created by the new dpkg-gensymbols command. Closes: #430367 - Uses now all paths in RPATH (instead of only the first). Closes: #395942 - Support parsing include directives in /etc/ld.so.conf. Closes: #431597 - Libraries are also searched in the public directories of packages being built and thus debian/shlibs.local can effectively define dependencies for libraries that are being built. Closes: #80340 - "symbols" files use the full SONAME as key instead of splitting it in (name, version) like in the "shlibs" format. This allows binaries to be linked with unversioned libraries and not fail. Note that unversioned libraries are still a very bad idea. Closes: #48208 - dpkg-shlibdeps now supports '-x<package>' options that can be used to exclude packages from generated dependencies (use with care though). Closes: #41907, #109954 - If dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't find any dependency information for a shared library that is actively used, then it will fail. This can be disabled with the option '--ignore-missing-info'. Closes: #10807 * Switch perl programs to use the new Dpkg::Deps module. This changes the behaviour of dpkg-gencontrol and dpkg-source which will rewrite and simplify dependencies and build dependencies as possible. Multiple dependencies on the same package are replaced by their intersection. Closes: #178203, #186809, #222652 . [ Frank Lichtenheld ] * Add $(MAKE) check to build target * Allow to use other compressions than gzip on dpkg-source -b (NOTE: this will result in a Format: 2.0 source package!). Closes: #382673 * Various small fixes to the manpages suggested by Helge Kreutzmann. Closes: #445858 * Fix Dpkg::BuildOptions (and thereby dpkg-buildpackage) to really set DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. Found by Daniel Shepler. Closes: #446119 * Change some ' in shell code in dpkg-source.1 and dpkg-query.1 to proper \(aq. Reported by Daniel van Eeden. Closes: #447476 . [ Guillem Jover ] * Use shipped perl modules when calling perl programs at build time. * Switch perl programs to use the new Dpkg::ErrorHandling and Dpkg::Arch perl modules. * Add support for format strings in Dpkg::ErrorHandling functions. * Move build and host arch detection code from dpkg-architecture to Dpkg::Arch. * Add initial udeb support: - Support new fields fields Package-Type, Subarchitecture, Kernel-Version and Installer-Menu-Item. Closes: #383916 - New '--type' option for dpkg-scanpackages. * Make dpkg-dev Conflict on dpkg-cross << 2.0.0 which was sourcing dpkg-buildpackage expecting it to be a shell script. Closes: #445852 * Get rid of undefined macros from man pages. Thanks to Colin Watson for the analysis. . [ Updated dselect translations ] * Czech (Miroslav Kure). . [ Added dpkg translations ] * Thai (Theppitak Karoonboonyanan). Closes: #446501 . [ Updated dpkg translations ] * Czech (Miroslav Kure). * Galician (Jacobo Tarrio). Closes: #446624 * Polish (Robert Luberda). * Russian (Yuri Kozlov). Closes: #446278 . [ Updated man pages translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #448354 * Polish (Robert Luberda). * Swedish (Peter Karlsson). . [ Added scripts translations ] * German (Helge Kreutzmann). Closes: #448353 . [ Updated scripts translations ] * Polish (Robert Luberda). * Swedish (Peter Karlsson). 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