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Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.22
Severity: normal
Hi,
I receive an error from lintian, complaining that my package is missing
a build-dependency on cdbs, even though it depends on dh-make-php which
depends on cdbs.
Charles
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.16.1cvs20060413-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii diffstat 1.41-1 produces graph of changes introduc
ii dpkg-dev 1.13.21 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.17-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii gettext 0.14.6-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii intltool-debian 0.34.2+20060512 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii libparse-debianchang 1.0-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
ii man-db 2.4.3-3 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [libdigest-md5- 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
lintian recommends no packages.
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> I can see various philosophies about this, and I'm happy to be persuaded
> if what I'm saying doesn't make sense, but the general rule of thumb I've
> been using is that packages shouldn't rely on transitive dependencies to
> pick up packages that they use directly. In other words, if a package
> calls patch directly in debian/rules, it should Build-Depend on patch,
> even if it also Build-Depends on a patch management system like quilt that
> in turn depends on patch. If a package links directly with some library,
> it should depend on the appropriate -dev package, even if another library
> it also uses pulls in that -dev package.
>
> There are some (maybe even many) cases where such reliance on transitive
> dependencies would be safe, but I think it's an area that benefits from a
> rule of thumb, and it makes it a lot easier to write things like lintian
> without a surfeit of special cases.
Sounds like a reasonable rule of thumb.
I'll modify dh-make-php such that it's next release makes templates
which depend on cdbs by default.
Charles
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