Santiago Vila <sanv...@unex.es> writes: > The diff package in lenny is now called diffutils in squeeze. To ease > transition, diff is now dummy and it has a "Pre-Depends: diffutils", > which lintian flags this way:
> E: diff: depends-on-essential-package-without-using-version pre-depends: > diffutils > However, any version of diffutils is ok, as the package name is new, so > this is really a false positive. Obviously, whenever an essential > package is renamed, this type of dependency (which should really be a > Pre-depends) should be ok. Indeed. I thought we already special-cased that one, but it looks like we're not at the moment. I'll take a look. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
