On 2023-08-19 Diederik de Haas <didi.deb...@cknow.org> wrote: > [please CC me as I'm not subscribed to debian-devel]
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 at 21:45:13 +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > 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 [...] > > 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. > While it's true that lintian did issue an error, now that src:freetype has > been updated and libfreetype6-dev has been dropped, there are a number of > packages which hadn't been updated and now FTBFS. [...] > As the FTBFS wrt libfreetype6-dev was predicted and announced [1], wouldn't > it > have been better if the MBF had taken place? > What is the recommended/appropriate way to deal with such issues? The agreed reached was not "let's ignore it, lintian has been warning about it". Instead a way forward that /should/ have avoided any breakage (versioned provides) was proposed and chosen. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2023/07/msg00193.html cu Andreas
