(moving to lintian-maint) On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FWIW, packages using CDBS and the python-distutils class and > > Build-Depending on "python-dev" have a similar warning... and yet they > > need python-dev for the clean target. > > Yeah, fixed that already.
Good! > > I tend to think that you're doing too much checks here. Having too much > > in Build-Depends is not *that* bad. You'd better check only for the > > contrary ie missing Build-Depends because they are used in the clean > > rule... well IMO of course. > > This would be a good thing to send to lintian-maint rather than just to > me. I didn't add the check in the first place; I just tried to fix all of > the false positives in a check that was already in lintian before I > started working on it. I agree with you that it's not completely clear > it's worth it, although at this point there aren't many false positives > left. I have nothing to add, just wanted to share my initial comment with the other maintainers as suggested by Russ. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/