On 2024-10-12 18:02, Philippe Cerfon wrote:
Package: lintian
Version: 2.119.0
Severity: wishlist
Hi.
May I kindly ask to consider whether it would be possible to have the
appstream package only as an optional dependency?
If installed it also enables integration with apt, which one may or
may not want.
Maybe it could be made a recommended or suggested package, which
lintian erroring out in case it would actually be needed because some
appstream metadata is present in the package to be checked?
Any/pr maybe this being allowed to somehow overridden?
Thanks,
Philippe.
Hi,
I'm not sure not issuing tags based on the presence of optional
dependencies is a good idea. I think it would lead to confusion and
output reproducibility problems.
Lintian itself doesn't need to be installed on a dev's system directly
and a clean build system often doesn't include Lintian itself.
What kind of issues having appstream installed on a system creates?
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