Vagrant Cascadian <[email protected]> writes: > 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? Lintian doesn't think that either are metapackages because they are both arch-dependent and it usually doesn't make any sense for a metapackage to be arch-dependent. Why *are* they arch-dependent? -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
