Hi,
Since lintian complains about missing ${misc:Depends}, people are adding
it to Depends: in debian/control. This is good thing but there could be
complication. One example is http://bugs.debian.org/548282 This is
causing double dependencies and creating uninstallable set of packages
in some cases. In other, just ugly double dependencies.
For python-gdata (2.0.7-1) which seems broken today also had:
--\ Depends (4)
--- python
--- python (>= 2.5) | python-celementtree | python-elementtree
--- python-support (>= 0.90.0)
--- python2.4 (UNAVAILABLE)
This came from
Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${python:Depends},
python (>= 2.5) | python-celementtree | python-elementtree
I do not know why python2.4 was introduced and why we need it. I also
think depending both on python and python (>= 2.5) looks ugly.
This seems to be typical problem happening since lintian recommendation
for adding ${misc:Depends}.
Is there any best practice guides on this subject?
Can someone think of lintian check for this double dependency issue?
Osamu
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