On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 17:32:53 +0100, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > I've just uploaded afterstep 2.2.12-3, which removes usage of
> > {misc:Depends} as a work-around.
>
> I suspect that's currently the only solution. zsh is affected, too:
>
> Depends: zsh-common (= 5.0.7-3), zsh-common (= 5.0.7-3+b1), [...]
>
> debian/control says:
>
> Depends: zsh-common (= ${source:Version}),
> ${misc:Depends},
> [...]
>
> So it may be worth reinvestigating this issue instead of removing
> ${misc:Depends} from tons of packages (and causing lintian warnings
> about that) and requesting freeze exceptions for all these uploads. (I
> expected hundreds of them, zsh and afterstep only being some
> examples.)
>
> Any advice by the release team on this issue is appreciated.
>
Removing the Depends is unacceptable. These packages need to stop using
link-doc (and do the appropriate symlink-to-dir dance on upgrades).Cheers, Julien
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