Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

2019-11-07 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Sebastian, On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 7:55 AM Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > So please warn against Build-Depends-Package > lines of this form. You are welcome to provide input on tag name, description, severity and appearance. (Fellow maintainers, please chime in too.) The proposed fix is located

Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

2019-11-04 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Sebastian, On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 2:24 AM Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > | * Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# In addition to your new tag, we can probably also check for the following conditions: 1. Prerequisite is not a development package (does not end with -dev) 2. Prerequisite is not bein

Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

2019-11-04 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Sebastian, On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 8:36 AM Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > No, I don't. But I am also not a fan of that tag. FWIW, the tag description now points out that the placeholder #PACKAGE# should not be used. Perhaps it deters some people. https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/c

Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

2019-11-03 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Hi Felix On 2019-11-03 05:49:59, Felix Lechner wrote: > On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 2:24 AM Sebastian Ramacher > wrote: > > > > In libdvdread 6.0.1-1, the following line was added to "fix" the > > lintian info on the missing Build-Depends-Package: > > > > | * Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# > > > >

Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

2019-11-03 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi Sebastian, On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 2:24 AM Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > > In libdvdread 6.0.1-1, the following line was added to "fix" the > lintian info on the missing Build-Depends-Package: > > | * Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# > > This causes the package name of the shared library to be su

Bug#944047: lintian: warn against Build-Depends-Package: #PACKAGE# in symbol files

2019-11-03 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Package: lintian Version: 2.32.0 Severity: wishlist From deb-symbols(5): | Build-Depends-Package | It indicates the name of the “-dev” package associated to the | library and is used by dpkg-shlibdeps to make sure that the | dependency generated is at least as strict as the correspon