Aurelien Jarno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.25 > Severity: normal
> If a package uses debconf templates without depending on po-debconf, > lintian returns an error like this one: > E: nagios2 source: missing-build-dependency po-debconf > However, as debhelper is now depending on po-debconf, this is not a > problem for most of the packages. > In my opinion, the check has to be updated. Lintian intentionally doesn't take into account transitive build dependencies. I've improved the long description of this tag to explain why, adding the following: lintian intentionally does not take into account transitive dependencies. Even if the package build-depends on some package that in turn build-depends on the needed package, an explicit build dependency should be added. Otherwise, a latent bug is created that will appear without warning if the other package is ever updated to change its dependencies. Even if this seems unlikely, please always add explicit build dependencies on every non-essential, non-build-essential package that is used directly during the build. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
