On 31/12/13 13:54, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Control: retitle -1 [external] detect dev packages that don't depend on > other dev packages > Control: tags -1 + wontfix > > Thanks for the bug report. > > * Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au>, 2013-12-30, 09:27: >> It would be useful for lintian to scan the headers in a dev package >> and see if they try to include any other headers that are not provided >> (transitively) by Depends > > I'm afraid we can't do that without violating Lintian design constraints: > > “* deterministic replay-ability: Checks should not rely on the state of > system caches or even the system time. These things makes it harder for > others to reproduce (the absence of) tags.
I wasn't suggesting that it should rely on having such dependencies installed on the system where lintian runs A more logical approach would involve checking against the current version of the dependencies in the distribution that the package is targeted at. > * same source analysis: Lintian checks packages in small isolated groups > based on the source package. Requiring the presence of all the > dependencies to provide the full results make it harder to run lintian > (not to mention, it makes "deterministic replay-ability" a lot harder as > well).” Checking a package against something from the archive (e.g. dev headers) is still a valid requirement, it just doesn't match with these lintian objectives. However, maybe lintian could have some optional mode for enabling non-deterministic checks? Anybody submitting a non-deterministic check to lintian would mark it as such and anybody looking at lintian output should see an indication of which failures are based on some non-deterministic check. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
