Bug#496875: lintian reports build-depends-on-obsolete-package as an error
Package: lintian Version: 1.24.4 Severity: important lintian currently reports the following error for the samba 2:3.2.3-1 source package: E: samba source: build-depends-on-obsolete-package build-depends: libcupsys2-dev But this package has a deliberate *or'ed* build-dependency to facilitate backporting: libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev So this is not an error, and lintian should not report it as such. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#496875: lintian reports build-depends-on-obsolete-package as an error
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:31:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: lintian currently reports the following error for the samba 2:3.2.3-1 source package: E: samba source: build-depends-on-obsolete-package build-depends: libcupsys2-dev But this package has a deliberate *or'ed* build-dependency to facilitate backporting: libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev So this is not an error, and lintian should not report it as such. This was fixed for dependencies in 76bb09a06cd86412505c33036ddd4ad89645ef42. Should probably be adapted for build-dependencies as well. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#496875: lintian reports build-depends-on-obsolete-package as an error
On Thu, August 28, 2008 14:07, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:31:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] But this package has a deliberate *or'ed* build-dependency to facilitate backporting: libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev So this is not an error, and lintian should not report it as such. This was fixed for dependencies in 76bb09a06cd86412505c33036ddd4ad89645ef42. Should probably be adapted for build-dependencies as well. At the time, I only patched the code that deals with dependencies as it was suggested that OR-ed build-depends on obsolete packages were generally pointless due to the way sbuild interprets them (see #486145). Backporting is one case where they do make sense however. It's a fairly simple change to add support for OR-ed build-deps; I'll do so in the next couple of days unless there are any objections. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#496875: lintian reports build-depends-on-obsolete-package as an error
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 06:46:25PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Thu, August 28, 2008 14:07, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:31:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: [...] But this package has a deliberate *or'ed* build-dependency to facilitate backporting: libcups2-dev | libcupsys2-dev So this is not an error, and lintian should not report it as such. This was fixed for dependencies in 76bb09a06cd86412505c33036ddd4ad89645ef42. Should probably be adapted for build-dependencies as well. At the time, I only patched the code that deals with dependencies as it was suggested that OR-ed build-depends on obsolete packages were generally pointless due to the way sbuild interprets them (see #486145). Yeah, they do not really help for backports.org backports, but might for private ones. And they also don't really hurt in unstable precisely due to the sbuild behaviour. So it is probably better to reduce the severity of the tag like we did for dependencies as well. Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
