Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.21 > Severity: normal
> One of my packages (mercurial) needs python2.4. So I specifically > build-depends on python2.4-dev. Since a few days, lintian complains > about a missing build dependency: > E: mercurial source: missing-build-dependency python | python-dev | > python-all-dev > It seems to ignore my depend on python2.4-dev. > However, my package perfectly builds in a pbuilder environment > (without any depends requested by lintian). So it seems that lintian has > too strict tests with respect to python. Are you using dh_python? dh_python specifically requires that /usr/bin/python exist. As near as I could determine, installing the versioned packages (python2.4, python2.4-dev) does not create /usr/bin/python, only /usr/bin/python2.4. Hence the warning. dh_python doesn't look for python2.4 or python2.3; it just bails out with an error if /usr/bin/python doesn't exist. Are you sure that dh_python is working in your chroot build of the package? And if so, could something else be pulling in python for you via a transitive dependency? If you're not using dh_python, something else may be going on; let me know if that's the case. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
