On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:32:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > (Build-)Depends: foo | bar > > > > will trigger a Lintian error. > > > > It would be preferable for the severity in this case to be only a > > warning instead of an error. > > Fully agreed. It should even be "I" only. Ideally the obsolete package > would be associated with the release were they have been obsoleted so that > the "I" could be upgraded to "W" in release + 1 and "E" in release + 2. > > (only speaking of obsolete package in OR, unconditional dependency on > obsolete package is certainly an error, also the obsolete package should > never appear in the first position in an OR dependency)
Note that due to the limitations of sbuild an obsolete package in an OR'ed dependency in Build-Depends generally is useless. So downgrading this only makes sense for Dependencies. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
