Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends' warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives in case of data-only packages, which have no 'Depends' field at all. Could you please

Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 2.1.0 Severity: normal Hello. Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends' warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives in case of data-only packages, which have no

Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-06 Thread Raphael Geissert
2008/12/6 Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Raphael Geissert wrote: Hi, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends' warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives in case of data-only packages, which

Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Isn't that a dpkg-gencontrol bug for not removing the Depends line when it evaluate to empty? That would definitely be my preferred fix, since it's a lot simpler to just always add ${misc:Depends} when using debhelper and it can prevent bugs from

Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Geissert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2008/12/6 Eugene V. Lyubimkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok, here is example: I have two binary packages: 'qorganizer' and 'qorganizer-translations'. The latter just have 'Recommends' on 'qorganizer' and no 'Depends' at all. is qorganizer-translations of

Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-05 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Package: lintian Version: 2.1.0 Severity: normal Hello. Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends' warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives in case of data-only packages, which have no 'Depends' field at all. And I can't fix this warnings,

Bug#507917: debhelper + data-only packages = annoying lintian warning

2008-12-05 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: [...] Lintian recently started to produce 'debhelper-but-no-misc-depends' warnings. While it reveal true issues, it also produces false positives in case of data-only packages, which have no 'Depends' field at all. Could you please give an example? Thanks, --