Package: lintian Version: 2.5.10.5 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Please add a check for packages which declare a build dependency (architecture independent or not) or a dependency on texi2html. This is in light of the transition from texi2html to texinfo documented at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01516.html .
I've attached a patch that should accomplish this, but it's untested
since lintian FTBFS with tests enabled with errors like
generic-dh-make-2008: ---- START BUILD LOG
[SNIP]
generic-dh-make-2008: fakeroot debian/rules clean
generic-dh-make-2008: fakeroot: FAKEROOTKEY set to 2139833373
generic-dh-make-2008: fakeroot: nested operation not yet supported
generic-dh-make-2008: dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean
gave error exit status 1
[SNIP]
Running generic-dh-make-2008 1.0-1... building... FAILED
and without tests with
mkdir man/man1/
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘man/man1/’: File exists
make: *** [build-stamp] Error 1
You should be able to apply the patch and sign-off with:
git am --signoff 0001-texi2html-is-obsolete.patch
Best wishes,
Ryan
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ii libclone-perl 0.34-1
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ii liburi-perl 1.60-1
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From e67aeae8a256a71762db2e09cc8cbce20e597ef3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Kavanagh <r...@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 19:38:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] texi2html-is-obsolete
---
checks/fields | 6 ++++++
checks/fields.desc | 9 +++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
diff --git a/checks/fields b/checks/fields
index 81f83a2..dfd2db7 100644
--- a/checks/fields
+++ b/checks/fields
@@ -846,6 +846,12 @@ if ($type eq 'source') {
tag 'build-depends-on-versioned-berkeley-db', "$field:$d_pkg";
}
+ # Transitioning from texi2html to texinfo
+ # http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg01516.html
+ if ($d_pkg eq 'texi2html') {
+ tag 'texi2html-is-obsolete', $field
+ }
+
tag 'conflicting-negation-in-source-relation', "$field: $part_d_orig"
unless (not $d_arch or $d_arch->[1] == 0 or $d_arch->[1] eq @{ $d_arch->[0] });
diff --git a/checks/fields.desc b/checks/fields.desc
index 55dffaa..000d42e 100644
--- a/checks/fields.desc
+++ b/checks/fields.desc
@@ -1128,6 +1128,15 @@ Info: The package build-depends on a versioned development package of
package, please add an override.
Ref: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17076_02/html/upgrading/upgrade_process.html
+Tag: texi2html-is-obsolete
+Severity: minor
+Certainty: certain
+Info: The package declares a build dependency or a dependency on the obsolete
+ package `texi2html`, which is destined to be removed from the archive. Please
+ transition to using the replacement `makeinfo` utility from the `texinfo`
+ package.
+Ref: http://wiki.debian.org/Texi2htmlTransition
+
Tag: transitional-package-should-be-oldlibs-extra
Severity: normal
Certainty: possible
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