Package: debhelper Severity: wishlist Version: 7.0.17 Hi Joey,
Sorry for the large reference, but hope it is useful. Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > 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). I don't believe dpkg-dev should do anything about it (in any case it should better just don't warn at all), dh_gencontrol could check for the presence of misc:Depends in the substvars file before calling dpkg-gencontrol and add an empty value. > > Gruesse, Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
