On 29-Oct-2001 Tom Cato Amundsen wrote: > Has anyone started modifying lintian? If I remember correctly, > packages that generate lintian errors will be rejected... >
anyone is me, the maint. (-: Although any pythoners among you willing to get dirty with perl are welcome to send patches. > At the moment, lines like > Depends: python1.5 > cause an error, E: python-script-but-no-python-dep > > Also, someone else reported that lintian complains against > Depends: python (>= 2.1), python (<< 2.2) > > Should the policy be changed to recommend: > Depends: python (>= 2.1) > Conflicts: python (>= 2.2) > instead two deps on python? Or is two deps on python not a problem > with new dpkg, apt etc? I have been waiting for the policy to finalize. lintian handles official policy only. The two depends thing is something I have to revisit. I was trying to keep people from doing "Depends: libc, libc (>> 2.1)" or more simply "foo, foo".
