-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-05-17 19:49, Russ Allbery wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com> writes: > >> Neither of those would help my use case, because it would have the >> effect of dragging dpkg-dev into our CD images anyway (we install >> Recommends by default just as Debian does, and our tools prefer the >> first element in a dependency disjunction if it exists). > >> How about: > >> Depends: libdpkg-perl, bzip2, xz-utils >> Suggests: dpkg-dev > >> or: > >> Depends: libdpkg-perl >> [Recommends: bzip2, xz-utils] >> Suggests: dpkg-dev > >> (Recommends in brackets because libdpkg-perl already recommends those, >> so I'm not sure if there's much point in lintian repeating this.) > > Yeah, one of these look right to me. > > Given the number of packages in the archive that use bzip2 compression and > the small size of the bzip2 package, I'd prefer to have it as a strong > dependency. I don't have a similar opinion about xz-utils, since I don't > have the impression that it's much used yet, so I'd be okay with leaving > that as Recommends. > > The choice of whether to explicitly state the Recommends should be based > on whether Lintian ever invokes programs in it directly or via flags to > tar or whether it only invokes it indirectly via libdpkg-perl. IIRC, we > invoke it directly via a flag to tar. >
We use it in unpack/unpack-srcpkg-l1 to pass --lzma or --xz to tar. Other than that, I do not think we use it. Do you want a suggests/recommends for this? >> Oh, you're right, -q would suppress the warning for unsigned files. I >> think my point (a) is still true though. > > Yeah, we suppress warnings for unsigned source packages since it's very > common to check a source package with Lintian in advance of signing it. > In other news, I got the changes mostly done (though alioth is down atm, so I cannot push them). For now I have used: Depends: libdpkg-perl, bzip2 Suggests: dpkg-dev I was not sure what to do about xz-utils so I left it out for now. ~Niels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJN1rhMAAoJEAVLu599gGRCu8QQAJBTYVhSN/IJ1BlrwB8aOll+ 0/baMJlXzw5W97ReFyYL2gpEBjpELxi/3a/25It+NTrIW3POeb22W+NL2+Q6XRO6 eBvhN0C760TnfILAD39EPAkFGv/yE+OAQmay97R6u0KdcDU8mfcXwi/1EjMaREFc 9aZM+dpwjtulUIZDSEaL6rsci+AwBcGeiJC8Iu+1fft9HF6ewZAC9Qsy3EO+VGGA EWFzqWRIEgHEgNdvQfDKjO9RqPmcnWsHEnxjklhoJ1C6a8QA3BamC5RX/SOsyejw cTXTVVr12eIVE294b5BOzk54DsXvXxxaBL2ivp//uVw3P1GF9lDdJ463l8oxs4Hs 9lkuw5WWxk269cGmmIRfjaUszWTXxcY26Zuc3dRIGFArtV+PY1069s0V00KF9i6k WzFmladrl/HV5yz9XPX6QBZbbP0fE4sKM6EZojNe8a+7rGt6YepeYhkXlA3Zbkp9 +15vN3QlA1diNMlsPJ/qv7nWNClpSmkM4eyVn5ZhLE75PktBSDsMy+Gt9pmIA4kM MJtqxipSTTHQerd5MG1i4NhnLXameMVDCe1z6xsVapeftEoRScqd2VETyDgHL79I BwwZ0RoTZ18Mrxv40fmlEh7Du6sxxGdXsipgKDCl1UVxNrqh6SKBC+OrHfZnNTXK f+d/KVVOiNNQq9/Y6+YW =3zyx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
