Bug#486145: lintian: Please downgrade depends-on-obsolete-package to warning for alternative OR'ed dependencies

2008-06-16 Thread Adam D. Barratt
tags 486145 + patch thanks Hi, On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 14:32 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: For instance, if bar is a known obsolete package, then the following in debian/control: (Build-)Depends: foo | bar will trigger a Lintian error.

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2008-06-16 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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2008-06-15 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#486145: lintian: Please downgrade depends-on-obsolete-package to warning for alternative OR'ed dependencies

2008-06-15 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 02:32:01PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: (Build-)Depends: foo | bar will trigger a Lintian error. It would be preferable for the severity in this case to be only a warning instead of an error. Fully agreed. It

Bug#486145: lintian: Please downgrade depends-on-obsolete-package to warning for alternative OR'ed dependencies

2008-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fully agreed. It should even be I only. Ideally the obsolete package would be associated with the release were they have been obsoleted so that the I could be upgraded to W in release + 1 and E in release + 2. The amusing thing is that Lintian has