Package: lintian Severity: wishlist I think I made a way to find all the violators of policy 3.5's clause:
Packages are not required to declare any dependencies they have on other packages which are marked Essential (see below), and should not do so unless they depend on a particular version of that package. Here's the script, which I hereby contribute to your checker programs: essential=$(grep-available -n -s Package -F Essential yes|sort) for package in $essential do echo ==== Packages depending on $package ==== # grep-available -s Package,Depends --eregex -F Depends "(, |^)$package($|,)" # (or if we already are sure about our regexp, then just:) grep-available -n -s Package --eregex -F Depends "(, |^)$package($|,)" done Or maybe your checker programs already do this check. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
