Bug#843117: lintian does not warn on Essential dependencies

[Adam D. Barratt]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On 2016-11-04 0:17, Nicolas Braud-Santoni wrote:
According to the Debian Policy, packages should not declare 
dependencies

on packages tagged Essential:

  
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-dependencies


However, I noticed that lintian does not warn if, for instance,
one declares a dependency upon dash.


lintian *does* warn about dependencies on Essential:yes packages, as can 
be seen from 
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version.html


Checking 
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/lintian/lintian.git/tree/data/fields/essential 
also shows that the list of packages checked for includes dash.


Is the package that you believe is being incorrectly flagged available 
somewhere for testing?


Regards,

Adam

Bug#843117: lintian does not warn on Essential dependencies

[Nicolas Braud-Santoni]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.49
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

According to the Debian Policy, packages should not declare dependencies
on packages tagged Essential:

  https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#s-dependencies

However, I noticed that lintian does not warn if, for instance,
one declares a dependency upon dash.


Best,

  nicoo


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils  2.27-9+b1
ii  bzip2 1.0.6-8
ii  diffstat  1.61-1
ii  file  1:5.28-4
ii  gettext   0.19.8.1-1
ii  intltool-debian   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl   0.1.30
ii  libarchive-zip-perl   1.59-1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl0.34-1
ii  libclone-perl 0.38-2+b1
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.18.10
ii  libemail-valid-perl   1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl  0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl   0.94-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl0.416-1+b1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-11
ii  libperl5.24 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl  0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl   1.71-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl  0.63-1+b1
ii  man-db2.7.5-1
ii  patchutils0.3.4-1
ii  perl  5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  t1utils   1.39-2
ii  xz-utils  5.2.2-1.2

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  dpkg 1.18.10
pn  libperlio-gzip-perl  
ii  perl 5.24.1~rc3-3
ii  perl-modules-5.24 [libautodie-perl]  5.24.1~rc3-3

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch 
ii  dpkg-dev   1.18.10
ii  libhtml-parser-perl3.72-2+b1
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.46-1

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