Package: lintian Version: 2.2.13 Severity: normal Lintian has a list of packages unsuitable for depends or build-depends, which includes broad metapackages intended for user/developer convenience. Right now, only xorg, xorg-dev, x-window-system, x-window-system-dev, and x-window-system-core appear in that list, and the lintian errors go by "depends-on-x-metapackage" and "build-depends-on-x-metapackage". I'd like to propose expanding the list, and renaming the errors accordingly.
In this case, I saw the following in mono-complete's package description: > For packagers: This package is not to be used as dependency for > packages! You should build-depend on cli-common-dev and the needed > libraries instead. To me, that immediately screamed "lintian test". :) - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lint-maint-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
