Hi, On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 1:45 AM Julien Puydt <julien.pu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so I think it's a false positive.
Actually, Lintian has required the ':any' for Python prerequisites since 2013 [1] but the implementation was defective. [2] You are now seeing an accurate picture of Lintian's settings [3][4][5][6][7] because the diagnostics were fixed. [8] That being said, the current settings are probably wrong. There appears to have been no bootstrapping reason to require the ':any' for Python across the board. The setting is also not correct for all cases. It will probably be removed in the near future. I am still researching my recent commit [8] in the context of the rationale presented in 2013. [9] My position is that "python:any" implies the ability to satisfy "python". > If it's not, both lintian's output and the error description in > /usr/share/lintian/tags/m/missing-build-dependency-for-dh-addon.tag > fail to explain what the matter really is. Thank you for the pointer. For the sake of consistency, I recently adjusted several tag descriptions [10] but apparently missed that one. Either way, the documentation changes will probably be reverted when the ':any' is dropped from the Python prerequisites. Thank you for bringing the matter to our attention! Kind regards Felix Lechner [1] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/beb1094db955fd99b693fca1e4c87958676dfe74 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/994902 [3] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/Debhelper.pm#L90 [4] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/Debian/Rules.pm#L41-50 [5] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/Check/Testsuite.pm#L58-59 [6] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/data/scripts/interpreters#L80-81 [7] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/data/scripts/versioned-interpreters#L77-78 [8] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/9bc560a62571f2f1a70ce7044093c42ff14e3efa [9] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/153961ead4ea6c7d38951f36852e43d110b8db30 [10] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/commit/ec728f427a2aa4f1d2451117448e79979a106f07
