Package: lintian Version: 2.3.3 Severity: important Hi,
got my writer2latex upload rejected with the following last night: Reject Reasons: writer2latex source: lintian output: 'missing-build-dependency ant', automatically rejected package. writer2latex source: If you have a good reason, you may override this lintian tag. Indeed: E: writer2latex source: missing-build-dependency ant N: N: The package doesn't specify a build dependency on a package that is used N: in debian/rules. N: N: lintian intentionally does not take into account transitive N: dependencies. Even if the package build-depends on some package that in N: turn depends on the needed package, an explicit build dependency should N: be added. Otherwise, a latent bug is created that will appear without N: warning if the other package is ever updated to change its dependencies. N: Even if this seems unlikely, please always add explicit build N: dependencies on every non-essential, non-build-essential package that is N: used directly during the build. N: N: Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 4.2 (Package relationships) for N: details. N: N: Severity: serious, Certainty: possible But I *do* build-depend on ant - ant1.7 | ant (<< 1.8.0~) to be precise, given that ant 1.8.0 is broken when used with gcj, the gcj maintainers don't care, and thus ant1.7 got uploaded which packages using gcj need to use (which this upload is for) (and yes, an1.7 provides ant and provides /usr/bin/ant etc.) Regards, Rene -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.20-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.47-1 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-9 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24 Perl interface to libapt-pkg ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1 Perl module that automatically gen ii libipc-run-perl 0.84-1 Perl module for running processes ii libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.2000-1 collection of modules to manipulat ii liburi-perl 1.52-1 module to manipulate and access UR ii locales 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: National L ii locales-all [locales] 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Precompile ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha-pe 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: pn binutils-multiarch <none> (no description available) ii libtext-template-perl 1.45-1 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- Grüße/Regards, Rene -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
