Package: lintian Version: 2.5.94 Severity: normal Hi,
I think these (from a build of the just uploaded aptitude 0.8.11-1) are false positives: E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo E: aptitude-common: missing-depends-on-sensible-utils usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/aptitude.mo These are just arch:all translation directories for the arch:any package aptitude, which does have a package relationship with sensible-utils. So I suggest that missing-depends-on-sensible-utils should ignore any hits under /usr/share/locale/. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-2 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii diffstat 1.61-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 ii file 1:5.33-3 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6+b1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.4 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.60-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.39-1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.0.5 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b3 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-12 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.74-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.72+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.4-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.26.2-6 ii t1utils 1.41-2 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b4 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-2 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.0.5 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b2 ii libtext-template-perl 1.53-1 -- no debconf information

