On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 03:31:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I like the general idea of this tag. But given the fact that only rarely > > used debhelper commands actually use misc:Depends I would either first > > check if the program actually uses those and only then issue the tag or > > would go for info for now and discuss this on debian-devel first before > > making it a warning. > > I'd also get a lot of warnings from this since I usually only list > misc:Depends for the packages that actually need it, but there's no simple > way of telling which binary packages would pick up misc:Depends. > > Unfortunately, listing it without having anything use it results in a > warning during the package build, so a lot of people fix the warning by > removing it (understandably).
Right, I thought of that, too but then forgot to mention it in the mail. This should probably be changed in dpkg-dev or debhelper before making this a warning (e.g. by always defining misc:Depends to the empty string if it is not used). 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]
