* Jakub Wilk <[email protected]>, 2016-07-18, 00:32:
In #831362, Helmut Grohne wrote:
W: libcap-ng source:
restriction-formula-without-versioned-dpkg-dev-dependency
I still believe that this lintian warning is bogus, because whenever
your dpkg-dev is too old, it will be unable to tell you that it is
too old failing to parse Build-Depends. In other words, there is no
reasonable scenario where the supposedly missing dependency can
result in useful diagnostics.
On a second thought, dpkg-dev isn't the only consumer of Build-Depends.
One could use sbuild from unstable to build a wheezy backport, in which
case versioned build-dep on dpkg-dev does help with diagnostics.
It is always satisfied even in jessie
So we should demote the tag to pedantic.
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Jakub Wilk
