clone #537240 -1 reassign -1 lintian retitle -1 cdbs maintainer disagrees with package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper warning thanks
Hi, packages built with cdbs currently trigger a lintian package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper, but the cdbs maintainer thinks that cdbs' behavior is correct. On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:22:08PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:53:24PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 01:13:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> >cdbs creates an unversioned debhelper dependency, which triggers a > >> >lintian warning on the generated package. > >> > >> Could you please quote that lintian warning? > > > I disagree with the described "recommended practice". That could apply > to *any* package, not just debhelper. Backports older than oldstable > will always be risky business! May I suggest that the maintainers of two important packaging tools get their opinions sorted out in a way that a package prepared using one tool do not get flagged as faulty by the other? Thanks ;) Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
