On 04/08/2013 12:17 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>, 2013-04-06, 15:05: >>> Insisting that all binary packages should have ${python:Depends} will >>> cause tons of false positives; let's not go that way. >>> >>> I think Lintian should emit the tag only if none of the binary >>> packages have ${python:Depends}. This is not bulletproof, but should >>> catch most mistakes. >> >> what about binary packages that are named python-* ? can we safely >> expect them all to Depend: on ${python:Depends} ? > > I have such name-based check implemented in lintian4python. It sort of > works, but I had to filter out at least: > - dependency/transitional packages; > - -dbg packages; > - -dev packages; > - documentation packages; > - python-support, python-central; > - packages built from src:python-defaults. > And I'm pretty sure there are still false positives...
I've gone ahead and filed this as a wishlist bug against lintian: http://bugs.debian.org/707180 anyone who wants to send a patch for that would be very welcome. i'm sorry i don't have the bandwidth to do it myself right now. Regards, --dkg
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