Package: lintian Version: 2.5.2 Severity: minor Tags: patch On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:40:31AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:02:03AM +0000, > [email protected] wrote:
> > Commit message: > > > > move perl 5.14 as a second alternative dependency on > > libextutils-parsexs-perl 2.210000 > > > > Closes: #637033 -- FTBFS: unfullfillable first alternative in > > build-depends > > Damyan, thanks for fixing this. I think I was distracted by a related > lintian warning, which specifically suggests that perl comes first, > forgetting the way the autobuilders interpret this. > > I'll make a note to look at whether the lintian message should be > altered. Patch attached. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email)
>From 85c278460c044fccdc3e742475339baf3ca6b3c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominic Hargreaves <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:42:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Improve description of versioned-dependency-satisfied-by-perl The advice previously given in this description was incorrect for versions of perl only in experimental. --- checks/fields.desc | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc index 425b2d9..82c83e2 100644 --- a/checks/fields.desc +++ b/checks/fields.desc @@ -934,6 +934,12 @@ Info: This package declares an unnecessary versioned dependency versioned dependency a secondary one. . Example: perl (>= 5.10.0) | libmodule-build-perl (>= 0.26) + . + An exception to this is when the dependency is only satisfied in a + version of perl in experimental. In this case, the dependency on perl + should come second. + . + Example: libextutils-parsexs-perl (>= 2.210000) | perl (>= 5.14) Ref: policy 7.5 Tag: package-superseded-by-perl -- 1.7.5.4
