On (29/07/06 14:14), Kevin Coyner wrote: > Please note that at mentors.debian.net it does throw off a lintian > warning: > > W: sitebar source: build-depends-without-arch-dep > Build-Depends: debhelper (>=5.0), po-debconf
I have this problem with one of my Arch: all packages. Do you use -i to lintian, it explains it quite well. For Arch: all packages do not have any binary targets used, and so do not require arch-dependent stuff, and as such everything can be in B-D-I. However, B-D-Is are not satisfied if you run the clean target. You probably use dh_clean in your clean target, and as such need debhelper in B-D. There is therefore an exception for debhelper in lintian. Now, in po-debconf(7) it suggests putting debconf-updatepo in the clean target, which I assume you have done. (If not then the rest of the discussion doesn't really apply). Now it is used in clean it needs to be in B-D for the reasons explained above. The problem is that lintian does not have the exception built in for po-debconf. Nowm debhleper depends on po-debconf, so you can get away with removing the explicit depenency, but I think this is wrong. I think the fix is to patch lintian to catch this situation and ignore it. If someone will confirm that I am correct I will file a bug against lintian to do this. James -- James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jameswestby.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
