Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.3
Severity: normal
Hello,
I have found an false positive about
preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends.
For example fglrx-driver:
lintian complains about:
preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends
withing every package. The extended description says:
N: The package contains a preinst maintainer script that uses
N: dpkg-maintscript-helper but does not declare a versoned
pre-dependency
N: on dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) that provides that script.
So adding a Pre-Depends on dpkg (>= 1.15.7.2~) is enough and will work to
prevent this
message, but fglrx-driver also switched to xz compression!
lintian suggests:
N: The deb uses xz compression for the data member, which requires a
N: Pre-Depends on dpkg (>= 1.15.6~). This is trivially satisfied in
Debian,
N: but it can complicate upgrades from Ubuntu Lucid where dpkg
1.15.6 is
N: not currently available.
So the correct way (to prevent faults abouts
preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends
and data.tar.xz-member-without-dpkg-pre-depends) would be to add a Pre-Depends
on dpkg (>= 1.15.6~).
Done, but lintian still complains about the
preinst-uses-dpkg-maintscript-helper-without-predepends
one.
You can reproduce it with
svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-fglrx/fglrx-driver/branches/experimental
revision 1146 for example.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii binutils 2.22-7.1
ii bzip2 1.0.6-4
ii diffstat 1.55-3
ii file 5.11-2
ii gettext 0.18.1.1-9
ii hardening-includes 2.2
ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1
ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.26+b1
ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.30-6
ii libc-bin 2.13-37
ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
ii libclone-perl 0.31-1+b2
ii libdpkg-perl 1.16.9
ii libemail-valid-perl 0.190-1
ii libipc-run-perl 0.92-1
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1
ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1
ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
ii locales 2.13-37
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii patchutils 0.3.2-1.1
ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.14.2-16
lintian recommends no packages.
Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.16.9
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.69-2
pn libperlio-gzip-perl <none>
pn libtext-template-perl <none>
ii man-db 2.6.2-1
ii xz-utils [lzma] 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2
-- no debconf information
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