Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
On 2016-11-04 0:17, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
According to the Debian Policy, packages should not declare
dependencies
on packages tagged Essential:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-dependencies
However, I noticed that lintian does not warn if, for instance,
one declares a dependency upon dash.
lintian *does* warn about dependencies on Essential:yes packages, as can
be seen from
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version.html
Checking
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/tree/data/fields/essential
also shows that the list of packages checked for includes dash.
Is the package that you believe is being incorrectly flagged available
somewhere for testing?
Regards,
Adam
