Package: lintian Version: 2.21.0 Severity: normal There are currently three packages in the archive which trigger the missing-build-dependency error. All three of these build-depend on dh-autoreconf, but not on debhelper, and they also trigger the package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends error[2].
All three cases are false positives, as the packages do not use any debhelper commands besides dh-autoreconf. To prove that, I have - built debhelper from git, which splits a libdebhelper-perl package off from it (see #821130); - created a local dh-autoreconf package which depends on libdebhelper-perl rather than on debhelper; - installed libdebhelper-perl and dh-autoreconf, but not debhelper in a build chroot. All three packages built fine, which shows that they do not need to build-depend on debhelper. 1. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/missing-build-dependency.html 2. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends.html -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-rc8-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.32.51.20190821-2 ii bzip2 1.0.8-2 ii diffstat 1.62-1+b1 ii dpkg 1.19.7 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7 ii file 1:5.37-5 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.17-3 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.36+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcapture-tiny-perl 0.48-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.44-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 ii libdigest-sha-perl 6.02-1+b1 ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.7 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libfile-find-rule-perl 0.34-1 ii libio-async-loop-epoll-perl 0.20-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.74-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-compare-perl 0.53-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libmoo-perl 2.003004-2 ii libpath-tiny-perl 0.108-1 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii libtry-tiny-perl 0.30-1 ii libtype-tiny-perl 1.004004-1 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.80+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.7-3 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2+b1 ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.28.1-6 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.55-1 -- no debconf information
