Package: lintian Version: 2.5.79 Severity: normal Hello,
unnecessary-source-date-epoch-assignment is thrown for exim4, however a) SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is exported by pkg-info.mk since dpkg-dev 1.18.8 b) exim4 only build-depends on debhelper (>= 10), without an additional build-dependency on dpkg-dev ( >= 1.18.8) c) debhelper 10 depends on dpkg (>= 1.16.2), dpkg-dev (>= 1.18.2~) and therefore the build-depencies do not guarantee that dpkg-dev ( >= 1.18.8) is installed and the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH assignment in debian/rules is not superfluous. Please only trigger the warning for packages with b-d on either dpkg-dev ( >= 1.18.8) or debhelper (>= 10.10). TIA, cu Andreas cu Andreas
