On Saturday 29 July 2006 21:41, James Westby wrote: > 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.
Seems like -mentors is running old version of lintian, since this has been dealt with, see: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=321135 Wishlist to -mentors web interface: please print the version of lintian you are currently running. Why not use linda also, since there are cases when a flaw is being caught by just one linter, no both. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
