Hi Simon, On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 00:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 22:38:20 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > Currently, there are 219 build-dependencies and 29 (direct) > > dependencies on libfreetype6-dev, which has been released with > > bullseye and bookworm. > > Lintian diagnoses this as "[build-]depends-on-obsolete-package" since > 2.116.0 (MR at [1], instances of the relevant tags listed at [2] and > [3]) which will hopefully help progress towards dropping the transitional > package.
Thanks for pointing this out. I wasn't aware Lintian had started flagging dependencies on obsolete packages some 10 months ago. Having Lintian issue a warning or error instead of bug filing is preferable. > [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/417 > (partially reverted in > https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/merge_requests/452 but the > freetype part remains) > [2] > https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=build-depends-on-obsolete-package > [3] https://udd.debian.org/lintian-tag.cgi?tag=depends-on-obsolete-package > > Unfortunately lintian.debian.org is not currently updating, so please > don't use that as a source.
