Package: lintian Version: 2.2.14 Severity: wishlist thanks for maintaining lintian.
for at least two packages i've worked on, it seems that they get "depends-on-metapackage" lintian errors: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-metapackage.html "Packages that are not themselves metapackages must not depend on metapackages, since this may prevent the user from removing portions of the package set they don't need." both education-desktop-other and ltsp-client are metapackages, or nearly so, containing only standard /usr/share/doc files, lintian overrides (for the predecessor to depends-on-metapackage, depends-on-x-metapackage), and i guess education-desktop-other also contains a cdd task file. but that still confuses me why ltsp-client is treated as a metapackage. how does lintian determine if a package is a "true" metapackage? live well, vagrant -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
